How common is the surname Gerrish?

1,736 people in the United States had the surname Gerrish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,849 Americans. It ranked 16,536th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gerrish?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gerrish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gerrish getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,746 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,736 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Gerrish

A surname, carried by 1,736 people in the United States.

2 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). Gerrish is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,736 people named Gerrish in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,849 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,746.

#16,536

rank among US surnames

1,736

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #15,413)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,534	Cluck	1,737	177,746
#16,536	Divito	1,736	177,849
#16,544	Mian	1,735	177,951

Who is named Gerrish

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

95% of people named Gerrish identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

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 Gerrish

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

Questions

How common is the surname Gerrish?: 1,736 people in the United States had the surname Gerrish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,849 Americans. It ranked 16,536th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gerrish?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gerrish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gerrish getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,746 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,736 in 2010, down 0.6%.