Gershey Surname
Approximately 69 people bear this surname
Gershey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 68 | 1:5,330,278 | 267,385 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Gershey Demographics
Gershey Political Affiliation
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Gershey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gershey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gershey has its highest incidence in The United States. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gershey? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,293,424th most frequently used surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 105,616,607 people. Gershey is predominantly found in The Americas, where 57 percent of Gershey live; 57 percent live in North America and 57 percent live in Anglo-North America.
The last name Gershey is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 68 people, or 1 in 5,330,278. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: New York, where 16 percent live, New Jersey, where 12 percent live and California, where 10 percent live. Other than The United States Gershey exists in one country. It is also common in Canada, where 1 percent live.
Gershey Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Gershey last name are 35.66% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 88.89% registered with the party.
Gershey earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 6.8% more than the national average, earning $46,083 USD per year.
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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
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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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 Gershey
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