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    The surname Gohl

    A surname, carried by 1,137 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G400

    Gohl: #22,592 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gohl #22,592, 1,137 people Gohl: #22,592 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gohl #22,592, 1,137 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gohl is more common than 86.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,137 people named Gohl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 271,544 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,116.

    #22,592
    rank among US surnames
    1,137
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.9%
    change since 2000 (was #21,742)

    Who is named Gohl

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

    95% of people named Gohl identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gohl

    Gohl has the Soundex code G400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gohl?
    1,137 people in the United States had the surname Gohl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 271,544 Americans. It ranked 22,592nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gohl?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gohl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Gohl getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,116 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,137 in 2010, up 1.9%.