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    The surname Gehrke

    A German surname, carried by 4,180 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G620

    Gehrke: #7,915 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gehrke #7,915, 4,180 people Gehrke: #7,915 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gehrke #7,915, 4,180 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gehrke is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Gehrke.

    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 4,180 people named Gehrke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,863 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,135.

    #7,915
    rank among US surnames
    4,180
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #7,429)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,909Wilkey4,18373,810
    #7,911Auger4,18273,827
    #7,912Margolis4,18173,845
    #7,915Reina4,18073,863

    Who is named Gehrke

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

    96% of people named Gehrke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gehrke

    Gehrke has the Soundex code G620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G620.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gehrke come from?
    Borrowed from German Gehrke.
    How common is the surname Gehrke?
    4,180 people in the United States had the surname Gehrke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,863 Americans. It ranked 7,915th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gehrke?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gehrke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Gehrke getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,135 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,180 in 2010, up 1.1%.