How common is the surname Getman?

1,447 people in the United States had the surname Getman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,369 Americans. It ranked 18,883rd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Getman getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,447 in 2010, down 1.8%.

The surname Getman

A surname, carried by 1,447 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G355

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Getman is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,447 people named Getman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 213,369 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,474.

#18,883

rank among US surnames

1,447

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-1.8%

change since 2000 (was #17,582)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,877	Serino	1,448	213,222
#18,883	Getman	1,447	213,369
#18,888	Rezac	1,446	213,517

Who is named Getman

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

96% of people named Getman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%

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 Getman

Getman has the Soundex code G355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G355.

Questions

How common is the surname Getman?: 1,447 people in the United States had the surname Getman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,369 Americans. It ranked 18,883rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Getman?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Getman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as two or more races.
Is the surname Getman getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,447 in 2010, down 1.8%.