The surname Gannaway
A surname, carried by 1,512 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex G500
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,512 people named Gannaway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 204,197 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,546.
#18,326
rank among US surnames
1,512
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-2.2%
change since 2000 (was #16,960)
Who is named Gannaway
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
82% of people named Gannaway identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 82%
- Black (not Hispanic) 12%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Gannaway has the Soundex code G500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G500.
Questions
- How common is the surname Gannaway?
- 1,512 people in the United States had the surname Gannaway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,197 Americans. It ranked 18,326th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gannaway?
- In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Gannaway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Gannaway getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,546 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,512 in 2010, down 2.2%.