How common is the surname Gerding?

1,079 people in the United States had the surname Gerding in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 286,140 Americans. It ranked 23,532nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gerding?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gerding identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gerding getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,281 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,079 in 2010, down 16%.

The surname Gerding

A surname, carried by 1,079 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G635

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gerding is more common than 85.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,079 people named Gerding in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 286,140 Americans. That is down 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,281.

#23,532

rank among US surnames

1,079

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-15.8%

change since 2000 (was #19,503)

Who is named Gerding

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

96% of people named Gerding identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Two or more races 0.7%

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 Gerding

Guertin

Gerding has the Soundex code G635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G635.

Questions

How common is the surname Gerding?: 1,079 people in the United States had the surname Gerding in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 286,140 Americans. It ranked 23,532nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gerding?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gerding identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gerding getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,281 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,079 in 2010, down 16%.