How common is the surname Gribbin?

1,096 people in the United States had the surname Gribbin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 281,702 Americans. It ranked 23,251st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gribbin?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gribbin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gribbin getting more or less common?

More common. 1,082 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,096 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Gribbin

A surname, carried by 1,096 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G615

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gribbin is more common than 85.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,096 people named Gribbin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 281,702 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,082.

#23,251

rank among US surnames

1,096

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #22,240)

Who is named Gribbin

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

96% of people named Gribbin identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gribbin

Gribbin has the Soundex code G615, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G615.

Questions

How common is the surname Gribbin?: 1,096 people in the United States had the surname Gribbin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 281,702 Americans. It ranked 23,251st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gribbin?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gribbin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gribbin getting more or less common?: More common. 1,082 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,096 in 2010, up 1.3%.