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    The surname Garbe

    A German surname, carried by 1,168 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G610

    Garbe: #22,131 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Garbe #22,131, 1,168 people Garbe: #22,131 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Garbe #22,131, 1,168 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Garbe is more common than 86.4% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a German surname, variant of Garb, which is converged from words such as gerben (“to tan”) and Ger (“spear”). Compare the surnames Gerber, Gerhardt. * As a French surname, from Old French gerba (“wheatsheaf”) (see modern verb gerber (“to sheave”)).

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,168 people named Garbe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 264,337 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,162.

    #22,131
    rank among US surnames
    1,168
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #21,069)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #22,124Dejarnette1,169264,111
    #22,131Damelio1,168264,337

    Who is named Garbe

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

    96% of people named Garbe identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Garbe

    Garbe has the Soundex code G610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G610.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Garbe come from?
    * As a German surname, variant of Garb, which is converged from words such as gerben (“to tan”) and Ger (“spear”). Compare the surnames Gerber, Gerhardt. * As a French surname, from Old French gerba (“wheatsheaf”) (see modern verb gerber (“to sheave”)).
    How common is the surname Garbe?
    1,168 people in the United States had the surname Garbe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 264,337 Americans. It ranked 22,131st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Garbe?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Garbe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Garbe getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,162 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,168 in 2010, up 0.5%.