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    The surname Gural

    A place surname, carried by 552 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G640

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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). Gural is more common than 75.5% of them.

    Origin

    * From Polish Gural, a spelling variant of Góral, from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”). * Alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Гураль (Huralʹ), which is likely also from Proto-Slavic *goraľь. * From Turkish Güral.

    Gural is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 552 people named Gural in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 559,322 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 482.

    #39,773
    rank among US surnames
    552
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.5%
    change since 2000 (was #42,363)

    Who is named Gural

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

    94% of people named Gural identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gural

    Gural has the Soundex code G640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G640.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gural come from?
    * From Polish Gural, a spelling variant of Góral, from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”). * Alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Гураль (Huralʹ), which is likely also from Proto-Slavic *goraľь. * From Turkish Güral.
    How common is the surname Gural?
    552 people in the United States had the surname Gural in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 559,322 Americans. It ranked 39,773rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gural?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Gural identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Gural?
    Gural is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Gural getting more or less common?
    More common. 482 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 552 in 2010, up 15%.