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    The surname Gash

    A surname, carried by 1,543 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G200

    Gash: #18,068 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gash #18,068, 1,543 people Gash: #18,068 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gash #18,068, 1,543 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gash is more common than 88.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,543 people named Gash in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,094 Americans. That is down 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,586.

    #18,068
    rank among US surnames
    1,543
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #16,635)

    Who is named Gash

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

    72% of people named Gash identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gash

    Gash has the Soundex code G200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gash?
    1,543 people in the United States had the surname Gash in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,094 Americans. It ranked 18,068th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gash?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Gash identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gash getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,586 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,543 in 2010, down 2.7%.