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The GREAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,218 20311 0 4
United States (1880 census) 796 6577 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +422 -13734 +N/A -12
Other Countries
Australia 67 20059 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GREAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 143 9335 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 98 14959 0.001 8
Texas 97 15888 0.000 5
Illinois 92 14444 0.001 7
Michigan 73 17155 0.001 7
Top States for GREAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 13 4332 0.002 23
Ohio 143 9335 0.001 13
Tennessee 62 8210 0.001 11
Iowa 28 15427 0.001 10
West Virginia 17 7966 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GREAR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GREAR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GREAR in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GREAR by picking someone at random in Washington DC than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GREAR

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GREAR surname.

Ethnic distribution of GREAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 783 64.29
Black/African American 407 33.42
White (Hispanic) 13 1.07
Mixed Race 9 0.74
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GREAR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

GREAR is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GREAR in historical publications

GREAR. See Gregory.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GREAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREAR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GREAR

The following words are slight variants of GREAR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.