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    The surname Gwinn

    A surname, carried by 4,852 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G500

    Gwinn: #6,915 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gwinn #6,915, 4,852 people Gwinn: #6,915 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gwinn #6,915, 4,852 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gwinn is more common than 95.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,852 people named Gwinn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,633 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,625.

    #6,915
    rank among US surnames
    4,852
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #6,725)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,906Hom4,86363,489
    #6,907Eberhart4,86263,502
    #6,908Martí4,86063,528
    #6,909Swinney4,85663,580
    #6,912Koval4,85563,593
    #6,913Gasca4,85463,606
    #6,914Fortney4,85363,620

    Who is named Gwinn

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

    83% of people named Gwinn identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gwinn

    Gwinn has the Soundex code G500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gwinn?
    4,852 people in the United States had the surname Gwinn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,633 Americans. It ranked 6,915th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gwinn?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Gwinn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gwinn getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,625 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,852 in 2010, up 4.9%.