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    The surname Gober

    A surname, carried by 4,339 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G160

    Gober: #7,655 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gober #7,655, 4,339 people Gober: #7,655 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gober #7,655, 4,339 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gober is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,339 people named Gober in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,156 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,286.

    #7,655
    rank among US surnames
    4,339
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,178)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,647Carlsen4,34371,090
    #7,650McGuinness4,34271,107
    #7,652Lent4,34171,123
    #7,655Gober4,33971,156
    #7,658Kowal4,33771,189
    #7,660Hartford4,33671,205
    #7,662Desjardins4,33571,222

    Who is named Gober

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

    81% of people named Gober identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Gobers

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Robert Gober
      American sculptor (born 1954)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gober

    Gober has the Soundex code G160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gober?
    4,339 people in the United States had the surname Gober in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,156 Americans. It ranked 7,655th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gober?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Gober identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Gober?
    Robert Gober, American sculptor (born 1954).
    Where is the surname Gober most common?
    Wikidata records people named Gober in the United States.
    Is the surname Gober getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,286 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,339 in 2010, up 1.2%.