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The surname Gaymon

A surname, carried by 1,199 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G550

Gaymon: #21,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gaymon #21,707, 1,199 people Gaymon: #21,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gaymon #21,707, 1,199 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gaymon is more common than 86.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,199 people named Gaymon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 257,503 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,058.

#21,707
rank among US surnames
1,199
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+13.3%
change since 2000 (was #22,670)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#21,700Schnitzler1,200257,288
#21,707Fino1,199257,503

Who is named Gaymon

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

73% of people named Gaymon identified as Black (not Hispanic), 22% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 73%
  • White (not Hispanic) 22%
  • Two or more races 2.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gaymon

Gaymon has the Soundex code G550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G550.

Questions

How common is the surname Gaymon?
1,199 people in the United States had the surname Gaymon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 257,503 Americans. It ranked 21,707th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gaymon?
In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Gaymon identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 22% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Gaymon getting more or less common?
More common. 1,058 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,199 in 2010, up 13%.