How common is the surname Gebauer?

1,269 people in the United States had the surname Gebauer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 243,298 Americans. It ranked 20,806th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gebauer?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gebauer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gebauer getting more or less common?

More common. 1,208 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,269 in 2010, up 5.0%.

The surname Gebauer

A German surname, carried by 1,269 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex G160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gebauer is more common than 87.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,269 people named Gebauer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 243,298 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,208.

#20,806

rank among US surnames

1,269

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5%

change since 2000 (was #20,436)

Who is named Gebauer

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

93% of people named Gebauer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.7%
Two or more races 1.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Gebauer

Gaber

Gebauer has the Soundex code G160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G160.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Gebauer come from?: Gebauer is German in origin.
How common is the surname Gebauer?: 1,269 people in the United States had the surname Gebauer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 243,298 Americans. It ranked 20,806th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gebauer?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gebauer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gebauer getting more or less common?: More common. 1,208 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,269 in 2010, up 5.0%.