Geiger

At the 2020 census, 20,742 Americans bore the surname Geiger — 1,691st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,742
Rank: 1,691st
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 6.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Geiger

Hans Geiger (1882–1945)German physicist
Karl Geiger (born 1993)German ski jumper
Mark Geiger (born 1974)American association football referee
Abraham Geiger (1810–1874)Prussian rabbi and scholar
John Geiger (1873–1956)American rower
Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805–1880)Austrian artist
Alain Geiger (born 1960)Swiss footballer and manager
Vinzenz Geiger (born 1997)Nordic combined skier from Germany

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

Surnames like Geiger

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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.