Gelster Surname

2,091,648th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 81 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Gelster Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gelster Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States791:4,588,088240,017
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States101:5,021,868210,693

Gelster Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gelster Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Gelster (Russian: Гельстер) is found most in The United States. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Gelster.

How Common Is The Last Name Gelster? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 2,091,648th most common family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 89,969,703 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 98 percent of Gelster live; 98 percent live in North America and 98 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The surname Gelster is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 79 people, or 1 in 4,588,088. In The United States Gelster is most common in: Nebraska, where 39 percent live, New York, where 30 percent live and Colorado, where 11 percent live. Excluding The United States Gelster is found in one country. It is also common in Russia, where 2 percent live.

Gelster Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Gelster has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Gelster last name rose 790 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Gelster Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Gelster surname are 27.14% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 73.91% being registered with the party.

Gelster earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 3.02% less than the national average, earning $41,848 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Gelster Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gelster in the Russian language
Гельстерgelster-

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gelster
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