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    The surname Gara

    A Hungarian surname, carried by 613 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gara is more common than 77.5% of them.

    Origin

    Hungarian origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Gara, a variant of Garay. * Reduced form of O' Gara, a surname of Irish origin.

    One of 46 Hungarian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 613 people named Gara in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 503,663 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 565.

    #36,477
    rank among US surnames
    613
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.5%
    change since 2000 (was #37,145)

    Who is named Gara

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

    77% of people named Gara identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 6.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Gara

    Gara has the Soundex code G600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G600.

    Other Hungarian surnames

    All 46 Hungarian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gara come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Gara, a variant of Garay. * Reduced form of O' Gara, a surname of Irish origin.
    How common is the surname Gara?
    613 people in the United States had the surname Gara in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 503,663 Americans. It ranked 36,477th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gara?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Gara identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Gara getting more or less common?
    More common. 565 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 613 in 2010, up 8.5%.