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    The surname Gause

    A surname, carried by 5,610 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G200

    Gause: #6,111 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gause #6,111, 5,610 people Gause: #6,111 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gause #6,111, 5,610 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gause is more common than 96.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 5,610 people named Gause in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 55,035 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,235.

    #6,111
    rank among US surnames
    5,610
    people in 2010
    1.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.2%
    change since 2000 (was #6,042)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,102Elizalde5,62054,937
    #6,103Agosto5,61954,947
    #6,104Laroche5,61854,956
    #6,105Honaker5,61754,966
    #6,106McComb5,61654,976
    #6,107Kowalczyk5,61554,986
    #6,108Vestal5,61454,996

    Who is named Gause

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

    49% of people named Gause identified as Black (not Hispanic), 46% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 49%
    • White (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gause

    Gause 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 Gause?
    5,610 people in the United States had the surname Gause in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,035 Americans. It ranked 6,111th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gause?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Gause identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 46% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gause getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,235 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,610 in 2010, up 7.2%.