How common is the surname Garst?

1,687 people in the United States had the surname Garst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,015 Americans. It ranked 16,887th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Garst?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Garst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Garst getting more or less common?

More common. 1,639 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,687 in 2010, up 2.9%.

The surname Garst

A surname, carried by 1,687 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Garst is more common than 89.6% of them.

Origin

From the German and Dutch surname, variant of Karst, from the noun Karst (“hoe, mattock”). Also a short form of the personal name Christian.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,687 people named Garst in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,015 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,639.

#16,887

rank among US surnames

1,687

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.9%

change since 2000 (was #16,208)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,881	Locher	1,688	182,906
#16,887	Howery	1,687	183,015
#16,894	Schild	1,686	183,123

Who is named Garst

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

95% of people named Garst identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Garst

Garst has the Soundex code G623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G623.

Questions

Where does the surname Garst come from?: From the German and Dutch surname, variant of Karst, from the noun Karst (“hoe, mattock”). Also a short form of the personal name Christian.
How common is the surname Garst?: 1,687 people in the United States had the surname Garst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,015 Americans. It ranked 16,887th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Garst?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Garst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Garst getting more or less common?: More common. 1,639 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,687 in 2010, up 2.9%.