Geary

Geary is the 2,989th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,784 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 25,400.

By the numbers

People: 11,784
Rank: 2,989th
How common: 1 in 25,400
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

As an Irish surname, from Ó Gadhra, from gadhar (“hound”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Surnames like Geary

Gearhart

Also a first name

Geary has been given to 2,457 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 1953. 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.