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    The surname Gjerde

    A Norwegian surname, carried by 596 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G630

    Gjerde: #37,391 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Gjerde #37,391, 596 people Gjerde: #37,391 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Gjerde #37,391, 596 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gjerde is more common than 77% of them.

    Origin

    Norwegian origin

    Borrowed from Norwegian Gjerde, from Old Norse gerði (“pasture, enclosed land”).

    One of 31 Norwegian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 596 people named Gjerde in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 518,029 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 583.

    #37,391
    rank among US surnames
    596
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #36,276)

    Who is named Gjerde

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

    96% of people named Gjerde identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    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

    Variant spellings

    • Jerde

    Gjerde has the Soundex code G630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G630.

    Other Norwegian surnames

    All 31 Norwegian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gjerde come from?
    Borrowed from Norwegian Gjerde, from Old Norse gerði (“pasture, enclosed land”).
    How common is the surname Gjerde?
    596 people in the United States had the surname Gjerde in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 518,029 Americans. It ranked 37,391st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gjerde?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gjerde identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Gjerde getting more or less common?
    More common. 583 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 596 in 2010, up 2.2%.
    What are other spellings of Gjerde?
    Jerde.