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    The surname Geil

    A surname, carried by 1,301 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Geil is more common than 87.4% of them.

    Origin

    From the German surname, from the adjective geil (“happy, lustful, boisterous”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,301 people named Geil in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 237,314 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,232.

    #20,421
    rank among US surnames
    1,301
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #20,124)

    Who is named Geil

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

    90% of people named Geil identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Geil

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Geil come from?
    From the German surname, from the adjective geil (“happy, lustful, boisterous”).
    How common is the surname Geil?
    1,301 people in the United States had the surname Geil in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 237,314 Americans. It ranked 20,421st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Geil?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Geil identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Geil getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,232 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,301 in 2010, up 5.6%.