Gingerich

Gingerich is the 3,313th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,658 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 28,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,658
Rank: 3,313th
How common: 1 in 28,000
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Anglicised form of German Güngerich, originally a compound of Old High German gund (“battle”) + rīchi (“powerful”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 97.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Gingerich

Philip D. Gingerich (born 1946)American paleontologist
Owen Gingerich (1930–2023)American astronomer

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

Surnames like Gingerich

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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.