How common is the surname Gessner?

2,773 people in the United States had the surname Gessner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,340 Americans. It ranked 11,374th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gessner?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gessner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Gessner?

Joy Adamson, Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980).

Where is the surname Gessner most common?

Wikidata records people named Gessner in the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Gessner getting more or less common?

More common. 2,735 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,773 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Gessner

A German surname, carried by 2,773 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G256

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gessner is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Gessner.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,773 people named Gessner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,340 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,735.

#11,374

rank among US surnames

2,773

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,714)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,365	Cogar	2,776	111,220
#11,368	Nunnery	2,775	111,260
#11,371	MacIntyre	2,774	111,300
#11,374	Gessner	2,773	111,340
#11,377	Bornstein	2,772	111,380
#11,380	Sauers	2,771	111,420
#11,383	Mooneyham	2,770	111,460

Who is named Gessner

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

95% of people named Gessner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Gessners

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Joy Adamson
Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Gesner

Gessner has the Soundex code G256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G256.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Gessner come from?: Borrowed from German Gessner.
How common is the surname Gessner?: 2,773 people in the United States had the surname Gessner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,340 Americans. It ranked 11,374th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gessner?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gessner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Gessner?: Joy Adamson, Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980).
Where is the surname Gessner most common?: Wikidata records people named Gessner in the United Kingdom.
Is the surname Gessner getting more or less common?: More common. 2,735 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,773 in 2010, up 1.4%.
What are other spellings of Gessner?: Gesner.