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    The surname Greear

    A surname, carried by 1,303 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G660

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greear is more common than 87.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,303 people named Greear in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 236,950 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,248.

    #20,394
    rank among US surnames
    1,303
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #19,908)

    Who is named Greear

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

    93% of people named Greear identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Greear

    Greear has the Soundex code G660, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G660.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Greear?
    1,303 people in the United States had the surname Greear in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 236,950 Americans. It ranked 20,394th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greear?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Greear identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Greear getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,248 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,303 in 2010, up 4.4%.