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    The surname Gerhart

    A surname, carried by 4,319 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G663

    Gerhart: #7,689 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gerhart #7,689, 4,319 people Gerhart: #7,689 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gerhart #7,689, 4,319 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gerhart is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,319 people named Gerhart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,485 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,233.

    #7,689
    rank among US surnames
    4,319
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,266)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,680Kushner4,32371,419
    #7,682Bevins4,32271,436
    #7,684Drown4,32171,452
    #7,689Gerhart4,31971,485
    #7,690Alleman4,31871,502
    #7,691Srinivasan4,31771,519
    #7,692Mathison4,31671,535

    Who is named Gerhart

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

    95% of people named Gerhart identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gerhart

    Gerhart has the Soundex code G663, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G663.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gerhart?
    4,319 people in the United States had the surname Gerhart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,485 Americans. It ranked 7,689th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gerhart?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gerhart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Gerhart getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,233 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,319 in 2010, up 2.0%.