How common is the surname Gress?

3,850 people in the United States had the surname Gress in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,194 Americans. It ranked 8,556th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gress?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Gress identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gress getting more or less common?

More common. 3,768 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,850 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Gress

A surname, carried by 3,850 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gress is more common than 94.7% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,850 people named Gress in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,194 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,768.

#8,556

rank among US surnames

3,850

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #8,107)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,547	Winner	3,853	80,131
#8,551	Riehl	3,852	80,152
#8,556	Gress	3,850	80,194
#8,558	Lafave	3,849	80,214
#8,559	Defelice	3,848	80,235
#8,562	Manrique	3,847	80,256

Who is named Gress

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

91% of people named Gress identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.7%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gress

Gress has the Soundex code G620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G620.

Questions

How common is the surname Gress?: 3,850 people in the United States had the surname Gress in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,194 Americans. It ranked 8,556th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gress?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Gress identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gress getting more or less common?: More common. 3,768 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,850 in 2010, up 2.2%.