How common is the surname Geib?

2,915 people in the United States had the surname Geib in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,916 Americans. It ranked 10,919th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Geib?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Geib identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Geib getting more or less common?

More common. 2,700 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,915 in 2010, up 8.0%.

The surname Geib

A surname, carried by 2,915 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Geib is more common than 93.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,915 people named Geib in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,916 Americans. That is up 8.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,700.

#10,919

rank among US surnames

2,915

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+8%

change since 2000 (was #10,837)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,910	Goodyear	2,918	105,807
#10,912	Edelstein	2,917	105,844
#10,914	Kinchen	2,916	105,880
#10,919	Philbrick	2,915	105,916
#10,923	Kirkendall	2,914	105,952
#10,924	Kiesel	2,913	105,989

Who is named Geib

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

96% of people named Geib identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

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 Geib

Geib has the Soundex code G100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G100.

Questions

How common is the surname Geib?: 2,915 people in the United States had the surname Geib in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,916 Americans. It ranked 10,919th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Geib?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Geib identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Geib getting more or less common?: More common. 2,700 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,915 in 2010, up 8.0%.