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    The surname Gear

    A surname, carried by 1,926 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G600

    Gear: #15,259 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gear #15,259, 1,926 people Gear: #15,259 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gear #15,259, 1,926 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gear is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,926 people named Gear in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,304 Americans. That is down 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,080.

    #15,259
    rank among US surnames
    1,926
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.4%
    change since 2000 (was #13,426)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,250Moorefield1,928160,138
    #15,255Bohman1,927160,221
    #15,259Fritch1,926160,304
    #15,262Larocco1,925160,387
    #15,268Tassone1,924160,471

    Who is named Gear

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

    84% of people named Gear identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gear

    Gear has the Soundex code G600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gear?
    1,926 people in the United States had the surname Gear in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,304 Americans. It ranked 15,259th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gear?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Gear identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gear getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,080 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,926 in 2010, down 7.4%.