How common is the surname Gehl?

1,318 people in the United States had the surname Gehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. It ranked 20,216th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gehl?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gehl getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,319 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,318 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Gehl

A surname, carried by 1,318 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gehl is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,318 people named Gehl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,319.

#20,216

rank among US surnames

1,318

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #19,079)

Who is named Gehl

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

96% of people named Gehl identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

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

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Surnames that sound like Gehl

Gehl has the Soundex code G400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G400.

Questions

How common is the surname Gehl?: 1,318 people in the United States had the surname Gehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. It ranked 20,216th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gehl?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gehl getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,319 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,318 in 2010, down 0.1%.