How common is the surname Geraci?

3,729 people in the United States had the surname Geraci in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,796 Americans. It ranked 8,791st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Geraci?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Geraci identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Geraci getting more or less common?

More common. 3,606 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,729 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Geraci

An Italian surname, carried by 3,729 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex G620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Geraci is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Geraci.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,729 people named Geraci in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,796 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,606.

#8,791

rank among US surnames

3,729

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #8,419)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,784	Lorenzen	3,733	82,707
#8,787	Nyberg	3,732	82,729
#8,789	Florian	3,731	82,751
#8,791	Geraci	3,729	82,796
#8,793	Crotty	3,726	82,862
#8,797	Pavlik	3,725	82,885
#8,799	Ober	3,724	82,907

Who is named Geraci

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

94% of people named Geraci identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Geraci

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

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Geraci come from?: Borrowed from Italian Geraci.
How common is the surname Geraci?: 3,729 people in the United States had the surname Geraci in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,796 Americans. It ranked 8,791st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Geraci?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Geraci identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Geraci getting more or less common?: More common. 3,606 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,729 in 2010, up 3.4%.