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    The surname Gurnee

    A surname, carried by 444 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G650

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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). Gurnee is more common than 70.6% of them.

    Origin

    * As a French surname, Americanized from Garnier. * As an English surname, variant of Gurney.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 444 people named Gurnee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 695,373 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 440.

    #47,706
    rank among US surnames
    444
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #45,735)

    Who is named Gurnee

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

    93% of people named Gurnee identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    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 Gurnee

    Gurnee has the Soundex code G650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G650.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gurnee come from?
    * As a French surname, Americanized from Garnier. * As an English surname, variant of Gurney.
    How common is the surname Gurnee?
    444 people in the United States had the surname Gurnee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 695,373 Americans. It ranked 47,706th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gurnee?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gurnee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Gurnee getting more or less common?
    More common. 440 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 444 in 2010, up 0.9%.