How common is the surname Guth?

3,453 people in the United States had the surname Guth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,414 Americans. It ranked 9,418th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Guth?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Guth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Guth?

Alan Guth, American theoretical physicist and cosmologist, followed by Larry Guth.

Where is the surname Guth most common?

Wikidata records people named Guth in the United States and Brazil.

Is the surname Guth getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,453 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Guth

A surname, carried by 3,453 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Guth is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

From the German and Jewish surname, from the adjective gut (“good”). Compare Good, Gut.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,453 people named Guth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,414 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,474.

#9,418

rank among US surnames

3,453

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #8,707)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,412	Johannes	3,455	89,362
#9,415	Meisner	3,454	89,388
#9,418	Albino	3,453	89,414
#9,421	Stalker	3,452	89,440
#9,426	Trieu	3,451	89,466
#9,427	Bulger	3,450	89,491

Who is named Guth

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

95% of people named Guth identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Guths

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist, born 1947
Larry Guth
American mathematician, born 1976
Rodrigo Guth
Association football player, born 2000

Notable Guths come mostly from the United States (2) and Brazil (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Guth

Guth has the Soundex code G300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G300.

Questions

Where does the surname Guth come from?: From the German and Jewish surname, from the adjective gut (“good”). Compare Good, Gut.
How common is the surname Guth?: 3,453 people in the United States had the surname Guth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,414 Americans. It ranked 9,418th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Guth?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Guth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Guth?: Alan Guth, American theoretical physicist and cosmologist, followed by Larry Guth.
Where is the surname Guth most common?: Wikidata records people named Guth in the United States and Brazil.
Is the surname Guth getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,453 in 2010, down 0.6%.