The GUNTHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,069	4047	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	1,863	3175	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+6206	-872	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	402	3935	0.002	25
United Kingdom	296	12841	0.001	6

Top States for GUNTHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	912	1998	0.005	48
California	844	3501	0.002	25
Florida	477	4193	0.003	30
Illinois	454	2810	0.004	37
Maryland	425	1412	0.008	80
Top States for GUNTHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maryland	425	1412	0.008	80
Delaware	62	2241	0.008	79
Colorado	251	2170	0.006	58
Utah	130	2226	0.006	58
Vermont	35	2804	0.006	57

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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 GUNTHER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GUNTHER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GUNTHER in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GUNTHER by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GUNTHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GUNTHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GUNTHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GUNTHER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	405	5.02
White (Hispanic)	139	1.72
Mixed Race	76	0.94
Asian/Pacific	52	0.64
Native American/Alaskan	18	0.22
White (Caucasian)	7,379	91.45

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

Similar names to GUNTHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUNTHER.

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.