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The surname Gibbens

A surname, carried by 1,938 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G152

Gibbens: #15,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gibbens #15,201, 1,938 people Gibbens: #15,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gibbens #15,201, 1,938 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gibbens is more common than 90.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,938 people named Gibbens in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 159,311 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,812.

#15,201
rank among US surnames
1,938
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+7%
change since 2000 (was #14,966)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,194Herzberg1,939159,229
#15,201Munk1,938159,311
#15,210Schnur1,937159,394

Who is named Gibbens

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

92% of people named Gibbens identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gibbens

Gibbens has the Soundex code G152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G152.

Questions

How common is the surname Gibbens?
1,938 people in the United States had the surname Gibbens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,311 Americans. It ranked 15,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gibbens?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Gibbens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gibbens getting more or less common?
More common. 1,812 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,938 in 2010, up 7.0%.