Gehring

At the 2020 census, 4,861 Americans bore the surname Gehring — 6,679th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 61,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,861
Rank: 6,679th
How common: 1 in 61,500
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From the German and gsw surname, from Gehring, a short form of Gerhard; equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gehring

Georg Gehring (1903–1943)Olympic medalist in wrestling
Walter J. Gehring (1939–2014)Swiss scientist
Lana Gehring (born 1990)American short track speed skater

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

Surnames like Gehring

Gehrke

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.