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The GEERDES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 571 36860 0 2
United States (1880 census) -1 112995 0 0
Change since 1880 +572 +76135 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GEERDES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 140 2680 0.005 48
Minnesota 111 6158 0.002 23
California 38 51204 0.000 1
Illinois 38 31760 0.000 3
Texas 31 35098 0.000 1
Top States for GEERDES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 140 2680 0.005 48
Minnesota 111 6158 0.002 23
South Dakota 16 7640 0.002 21
Wyoming 8 8711 0.002 16
North Dakota 6 13253 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GEERDES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GEERDES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GEERDES in Iowa than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GEERDES by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GEERDES

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GEERDES surname.

Ethnic distribution of GEERDES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 557 97.55
Mixed Race 6 1.05
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GEERDES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

GEERDES is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GEERDES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GEERDES.

Similar names to GEERDES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GEERDES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GEERDES

The following words are slight variants of GEERDES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.