How common is the surname Gamage?

636 people in the United States had the surname Gamage in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 485,449 Americans. It ranked 35,395th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gamage?

In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Gamage identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Gamage getting more or less common?

More common. 574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 636 in 2010, up 11%.

The surname Gamage

A Sinhalese place surname, carried by 636 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gamage is more common than 78.2% of them.

Origin

Sinhalese origin

Various origins: * English habitational surname of Norman origin from any of various places in France called Gamache or Gamaches. * Borrowed from Sinhalese ගමගේ (gamagē).

Gamage is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 636 people named Gamage in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 485,449 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 574.

#35,395

rank among US surnames

636

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

+10.8%

change since 2000 (was #36,716)

Who is named Gamage

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

69% of people named Gamage identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 8.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 69%
Asian and Pacific Islander 20%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gamage

Gamage has the Soundex code G520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G520.

Questions

Where does the surname Gamage come from?: Various origins: * English habitational surname of Norman origin from any of various places in France called Gamache or Gamaches. * Borrowed from Sinhalese ගමගේ (gamagē).
How common is the surname Gamage?: 636 people in the United States had the surname Gamage in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 485,449 Americans. It ranked 35,395th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gamage?: In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Gamage identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
What type of surname is Gamage?: Gamage is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Gamage getting more or less common?: More common. 574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 636 in 2010, up 11%.