Gist

At the 2020 census, 6,105 Americans bore the surname Gist — 5,498th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,105
Rank: 5,498th
How common: 1 in 49,000
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 45.9%
Black, not Hispanic 42.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gist

James Gist (born 1986)American basketball player
Robert Gist (1917–1998)American actor and director

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

Surnames like Gist

Gish

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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.