How common is the surname Gangi?

1,386 people in the United States had the surname Gangi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,760 Americans. It ranked 19,489th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gangi?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Gangi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gangi getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,386 in 2010, down 4.8%.

The surname Gangi

An Italian surname, carried by 1,386 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). Gangi is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Gangi.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,386 people named Gangi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,760 Americans. That is down 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,456.

#19,489

rank among US surnames

1,386

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-4.8%

change since 2000 (was #17,748)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,480	Vanvoorhis	1,387	222,600
#19,489	Pulsifer	1,386	222,760
#19,498	Dubuque	1,385	222,921

Who is named Gangi

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

94% of people named Gangi identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Two or more races 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gangi

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

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Gangi come from?: Borrowed from Italian Gangi.
How common is the surname Gangi?: 1,386 people in the United States had the surname Gangi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,760 Americans. It ranked 19,489th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gangi?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Gangi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gangi getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,386 in 2010, down 4.8%.