Geer

8,049 people in the United States were counted with the surname Geer in the 2020 census, making it the 4,260th most common in the country. That is about one person in 37,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,049
Rank: 4,260th
How common: 1 in 37,100
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, spelling variant of Geary.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.2%
Black, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Geer

Dirk Jan de Geer (1870–1960)Dutch politician
Gerhard Louis De Geer (1854–1935)Swedish politician
Charles De Geer (1720–1778)Swedish entomologist, industrialist and civil servant
Will Geer (1902–1978)American actor and activist
Ellen Geer (born 1941)American actress and director
Gerard De Geer (1858–1943)Swedish geologist
Charlotte Geer (born 1957)American rower
Louis De Geer (1587–1652)Dutch politician, industrialist, gun merchant

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

Surnames like Geer

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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.