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The GREEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,248 19908 0 5
United States (1880 census) 71 39728 0 1
Change since 1880 +1177 +19820 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GREEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 203 4288 0.003 29
Washington 107 7254 0.002 18
Florida 96 18615 0.001 6
Tennessee 90 6675 0.002 16
Ohio 87 15634 0.001 8
Top States for GREEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 203 4288 0.003 29
Wyoming 14 5543 0.003 28
Washington 107 7254 0.002 18
Tennessee 90 6675 0.002 16
South Dakota 10 12656 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of GREEAR

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

Ethnic distribution of GREEAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 45 3.61
Mixed Race 19 1.52
White (Hispanic) 17 1.36
White (Caucasian) 1,165 93.35
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GREEAR in historical publications

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

Similar names to GREEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREEAR.

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 GREEAR

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