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The surname Gotcher

A surname, carried by 1,219 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G326

Gotcher: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gotcher #21,439, 1,219 people Gotcher: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gotcher #21,439, 1,219 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gotcher is more common than 86.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,219 people named Gotcher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,098.

#21,439
rank among US surnames
1,219
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+11%
change since 2000 (was #22,011)

Who is named Gotcher

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

84% of people named Gotcher identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 84%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.1%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gotcher

Gotcher has the Soundex code G326, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G326.

Questions

How common is the surname Gotcher?
1,219 people in the United States had the surname Gotcher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. It ranked 21,439th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gotcher?
In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Gotcher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Gotcher getting more or less common?
More common. 1,098 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,219 in 2010, up 11%.