The surname Gaiter
A surname, carried by 1,140 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex G360
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,140 people named Gaiter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 270,829 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 903.
#22,543
rank among US surnames
1,140
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+26.2%
change since 2000 (was #25,657)
Who is named Gaiter
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
71% of people named Gaiter identified as Black (not Hispanic), 23% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 71%
- White (not Hispanic) 23%
- Two or more races 3.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Gaiter has the Soundex code G360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G360.
Questions
- How common is the surname Gaiter?
- 1,140 people in the United States had the surname Gaiter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 270,829 Americans. It ranked 22,543rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gaiter?
- In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Gaiter identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 23% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Gaiter getting more or less common?
- More common. 903 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,140 in 2010, up 26%.