Gable

At the 2020 census, 8,942 Americans bore the surname Gable — 3,866th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 33,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,942
Rank: 3,866th
How common: 1 in 33,400
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, related to the noun gable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gable described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.0%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Gable

Clark Gable (1901–1960)American actor
June Gable (born 1945)American actress
Dan Gable (born 1948)American wrestler and coach
Clark James Gable (1988–2019)American actor

People named Gable with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gable

Also a first name

Gable has been given to 810 American babies as a first name since 1909, peaking in 2009. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.