Gause

At the 2020 census, 5,058 Americans bore the surname Gause — 6,460th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,058
Rank: 6,460th
How common: 1 in 59,100
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 50.4%
White, not Hispanic 41.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Gause

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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.