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    The surname Gath

    A place surname, carried by 556 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G300

    Gath: #39,555 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Gath #39,555, 556 people Gath: #39,555 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Gath #39,555, 556 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gath is more common than 75.6% of them.

    Origin

    Various origins: * A reduced form of McGath, a Scottish surname. * A variant of Garth, an English topographic surname. * Borrowed from North German Gath, a topographic surname from Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”).

    Gath is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 556 people named Gath in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 555,298 Americans. That is down 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 581.

    #39,555
    rank among US surnames
    556
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #36,381)

    Who is named Gath

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

    94% of people named Gath identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gath

    Gath has the Soundex code G300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G300.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gath come from?
    Various origins: * A reduced form of McGath, a Scottish surname. * A variant of Garth, an English topographic surname. * Borrowed from North German Gath, a topographic surname from Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”).
    How common is the surname Gath?
    556 people in the United States had the surname Gath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 555,298 Americans. It ranked 39,555th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gath?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Gath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Gath?
    Gath is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Gath getting more or less common?
    Less common. 581 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 556 in 2010, down 4.3%.