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    The surname Gunnels

    A surname, carried by 2,264 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G542

    Gunnels: #13,453 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gunnels #13,453, 2,264 people Gunnels: #13,453 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gunnels #13,453, 2,264 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gunnels is more common than 91.7% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Gunnells.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,264 people named Gunnels in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 136,372 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,305.

    #13,453
    rank among US surnames
    2,264
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #12,360)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,445Boivin2,265136,311
    #13,453Carstensen2,264136,372
    #13,456Mankin2,263136,432
    #13,462Trottier2,262136,492

    Who is named Gunnels

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

    87% of people named Gunnels identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gunnels

    Gunnels has the Soundex code G542, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G542.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gunnels come from?
    Variant of Gunnells.
    How common is the surname Gunnels?
    2,264 people in the United States had the surname Gunnels in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 136,372 Americans. It ranked 13,453rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gunnels?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Gunnels identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gunnels getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,305 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,264 in 2010, down 1.8%.