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The surname Gilbreath

A surname, carried by 4,804 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G416

Gilbreath: #6,980 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gilbreath #6,980, 4,804 people Gilbreath: #6,980 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gilbreath #6,980, 4,804 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gilbreath is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,804 people named Gilbreath in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,268 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,809.

#6,980
rank among US surnames
4,804
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
-0.1%
change since 2000 (was #6,510)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,976Pettway4,80764,228
#6,977Hileman4,80664,242
#6,979Bolinger4,80564,255
#6,980Gilbreath4,80464,268

Who is named Gilbreath

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

88% of people named Gilbreath identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 88%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 7.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gilbreath

Gilbreath has the Soundex code G416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G416.

Questions

How common is the surname Gilbreath?
4,804 people in the United States had the surname Gilbreath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,268 Americans. It ranked 6,980th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gilbreath?
In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Gilbreath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Gilbreath getting more or less common?
Less common. 4,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,804 in 2010, down 0.1%.