The surname Gassaway
A surname, carried by 1,756 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex G200
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,756 people named Gassaway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,823 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,752.
#16,390
rank among US surnames
1,756
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.2%
change since 2000 (was #15,375)
Who is named Gassaway
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
69% of people named Gassaway identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 69%
- Black (not Hispanic) 23%
- Two or more races 3.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Gassaway 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 Gassaway?
- 1,756 people in the United States had the surname Gassaway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,823 Americans. It ranked 16,390th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gassaway?
- In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Gassaway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Gassaway getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,752 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,756 in 2010, up 0.2%.