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    The surname Giguere

    A French surname, carried by 2,538 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex G260

    Giguere: #12,255 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Giguere #12,255, 2,538 people Giguere: #12,255 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Giguere #12,255, 2,538 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Giguere is more common than 92.4% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From French Giguère.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,538 people named Giguere in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,649 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,501.

    #12,255
    rank among US surnames
    2,538
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #11,530)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,247Bondurant2,540121,553
    #12,250Koeller2,539121,601
    #12,255Cabe2,538121,649
    #12,261Starner2,537121,697
    #12,264Lounsbury2,536121,745

    Who is named Giguere

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

    97% of people named Giguere identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Giguere

    Giguere has the Soundex code G260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G260.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Giguere come from?
    From French Giguère.
    How common is the surname Giguere?
    2,538 people in the United States had the surname Giguere in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,649 Americans. It ranked 12,255th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Giguere?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Giguere identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Giguere getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,501 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,538 in 2010, up 1.5%.