The surname Gover
A surname, carried by 1,923 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex G160
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,923 people named Gover in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,554 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,928.
#15,272
rank among US surnames
1,923
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
-0.3%
change since 2000 (was #14,265)
Who is named Gover
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Gover identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 7.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 78%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Gover 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 Gover?
- 1,923 people in the United States had the surname Gover in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,554 Americans. It ranked 15,272nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gover?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Gover identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Gover getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,928 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,923 in 2010, down 0.3%.