How common is the surname Gines?

2,832 people in the United States had the surname Gines in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,020 Americans. It ranked 11,170th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gines?

In the 2010 Census, 35% of people named Gines identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gines getting more or less common?

More common. 2,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,832 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Gines

A surname, carried by 2,832 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gines is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

* As a Catalan surname, from the saints' name Ginés. Compare Jines. * The city in Spain is of unclear origin, but could possibly be a corruption of the source of the saints' name above with an Arabic influence, namely جنة (“garden, paradise”), referring to the Garden of Eden.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,832 people named Gines in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,020 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,478.

#11,170

rank among US surnames

2,832

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+14.3%

change since 2000 (was #11,621)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,163	Pittenger	2,834	108,943
#11,168	Dewar	2,833	108,982
#11,170	Gines	2,832	109,020
#11,172	Rothe	2,831	109,059
#11,174	Hornung	2,830	109,097
#11,179	Lucey	2,829	109,136

Who is named Gines

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

35% of people named Gines identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 15% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 35%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 32%
Asian and Pacific Islander 15%
Black (not Hispanic) 14%
Two or more races 3.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gines

Gines has the Soundex code G520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G520.

Questions

Where does the surname Gines come from?: * As a Catalan surname, from the saints' name Ginés. Compare Jines. * The city in Spain is of unclear origin, but could possibly be a corruption of the source of the saints' name above with an Arabic influence, namely جنة (“garden, paradise”), referring to the Garden of Eden.
How common is the surname Gines?: 2,832 people in the United States had the surname Gines in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,020 Americans. It ranked 11,170th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gines?: In the 2010 Census, 35% of people named Gines identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gines getting more or less common?: More common. 2,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,832 in 2010, up 14%.