How common is the surname Giese?

6,553 people in the United States had the surname Giese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,115 Americans. It ranked 5,319th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Giese?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Giese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Giese getting more or less common?

Less common. 6,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,553 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Giese

A surname, carried by 6,553 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Giese is more common than 96.7% of them.

Origin

German, Dutch and Danish surname, from a short form of the personal name Gieselbert (see Gilbert) or related Germanic names such as Giesel, where the first element means "pledge, hostage." Compare Giesey.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,553 people named Giese in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,115 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,574.

#5,319

rank among US surnames

6,553

people in 2010

2.2

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #4,910)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,315	Mallett	6,556	47,094
#5,316	Barcia	6,555	47,101
#5,317	McCleary	6,554	47,108
#5,319	Giese	6,553	47,115

Who is named Giese

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

96% of people named Giese identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Giese

Giese has the Soundex code G200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G200.

Questions

Where does the surname Giese come from?: German, Dutch and Danish surname, from a short form of the personal name Gieselbert (see Gilbert) or related Germanic names such as Giesel, where the first element means "pledge, hostage." Compare Giesey.
How common is the surname Giese?: 6,553 people in the United States had the surname Giese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,115 Americans. It ranked 5,319th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Giese?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Giese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Giese getting more or less common?: Less common. 6,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,553 in 2010, down 0.3%.