The surname Gearheart
A surname, carried by 1,211 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex G663
Origin
From the German surname, Americanized from Gerhardt, similar to Gayheart.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,211 people named Gearheart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 254,951 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,051.
Who is named Gearheart
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Gearheart identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Gearheart has the Soundex code G663, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G663.
Questions
- Where does the surname Gearheart come from?
- From the German surname, Americanized from Gerhardt, similar to Gayheart.
- How common is the surname Gearheart?
- 1,211 people in the United States had the surname Gearheart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 254,951 Americans. It ranked 21,553rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gearheart?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gearheart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Gearheart getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,051 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,211 in 2010, up 15%.