How common is the surname Gayhart?

1,133 people in the United States had the surname Gayhart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. It ranked 22,646th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gayhart?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gayhart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gayhart getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,133 in 2010, down 1.0%.

The surname Gayhart

A surname, carried by 1,133 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gayhart is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

Uncertain; possibly an Americanized (translated) form of French Jolicoeur or an Americanized spelling of German Gerhardt.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,133 people named Gayhart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,144.

#22,646

rank among US surnames

1,133

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-1%

change since 2000 (was #21,335)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#22,637	Prato	1,134	272,262
#22,646	DiVincenzo	1,133	272,503

Who is named Gayhart

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

96% of people named Gayhart identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.0%
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 Gayhart

Gayheart

Gayhart has the Soundex code G630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G630.

Questions

Where does the surname Gayhart come from?: Uncertain; possibly an Americanized (translated) form of French Jolicoeur or an Americanized spelling of German Gerhardt.
How common is the surname Gayhart?: 1,133 people in the United States had the surname Gayhart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. It ranked 22,646th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gayhart?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gayhart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gayhart getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,133 in 2010, down 1.0%.