How common is the surname Gendron?

4,537 people in the United States had the surname Gendron in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,051 Americans. It ranked 7,345th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gendron?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gendron identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gendron getting more or less common?

About as common. 4,539 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,537 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Gendron

A surname, carried by 4,537 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gendron is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,537 people named Gendron in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,051 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,539.

#7,345

rank among US surnames

4,537

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #6,829)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,336	Gurney	4,547	67,901
#7,337	Amezquita	4,544	67,946
#7,338	Burmeister	4,543	67,961
#7,339	Macaluso	4,542	67,976
#7,342	Crozier	4,541	67,991
#7,343	Surratt	4,539	68,021
#7,344	Boldt	4,538	68,036

Who is named Gendron

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

95% of people named Gendron identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gendron

Gendron has the Soundex code G536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G536.

Questions

How common is the surname Gendron?: 4,537 people in the United States had the surname Gendron in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,051 Americans. It ranked 7,345th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gendron?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gendron identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gendron getting more or less common?: About as common. 4,539 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,537 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.