How common is the surname Gouge?

2,837 people in the United States had the surname Gouge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,828 Americans. It ranked 11,156th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gouge?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Gouge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Gouge getting more or less common?

More common. 2,771 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,837 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Gouge

A surname, carried by 2,837 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G200

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

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,837 people named Gouge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 108,828 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,771.

#11,156

rank among US surnames

2,837

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,611)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,152	Lakes	2,840	108,713
#11,153	Litz	2,839	108,752
#11,154	Heyman	2,838	108,790
#11,156	Ranieri	2,837	108,828
#11,158	Stirling	2,836	108,867
#11,160	Helland	2,835	108,905
#11,163	Pittenger	2,834	108,943

Who is named Gouge

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

90% of people named Gouge identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
American Indian and Alaska Native 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.9%
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 Gouge

Gouge has the Soundex code G200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G200.

Questions

How common is the surname Gouge?: 2,837 people in the United States had the surname Gouge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,828 Americans. It ranked 11,156th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gouge?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Gouge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Gouge getting more or less common?: More common. 2,771 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,837 in 2010, up 2.4%.