How common is the surname Garey?

2,772 people in the United States had the surname Garey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,380 Americans. It ranked 11,377th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Garey getting more or less common?

More common. 2,761 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,772 in 2010, up 0.4%.

The surname Garey

A surname, carried by 2,772 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Garey is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,772 people named Garey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,380 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,761.

#11,377

rank among US surnames

2,772

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+0.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,641)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,368	Nunnery	2,775	111,260
#11,371	MacIntyre	2,774	111,300
#11,374	Gessner	2,773	111,340
#11,377	Bornstein	2,772	111,380
#11,380	Sauers	2,771	111,420
#11,383	Mooneyham	2,770	111,460

Who is named Garey

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

85% of people named Garey identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 85%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Garey

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

Questions

How common is the surname Garey?: 2,772 people in the United States had the surname Garey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,380 Americans. It ranked 11,377th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Garey?: In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Garey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Garey getting more or less common?: More common. 2,761 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,772 in 2010, up 0.4%.