Gersting Surname

1,447,279th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 148 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Gersting Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gersting Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany961:838,59960,830
United States491:7,397,121336,459
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States71:7,174,098302,835

Gersting Last Name Facts

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

The last name Gersting is found most in Germany. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Gersting.

How Common Is The Last Name Gersting? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,447,279th most frequently held surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 49,240,175 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 65 percent of Gersting live; 65 percent live in Western Europe and 65 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most frequently used in Germany, where it is borne by 96 people, or 1 in 838,599. In Germany Gersting is most prevalent in: Hesse, where 43 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 24 percent reside and Lower Saxony, where 20 percent reside. Apart from Germany it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 33 percent reside and Brazil, where 1 percent reside.

Gersting Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Gersting has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Gersting surname grew 700 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Gersting Last Name Statistics demography

Gersting earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 1.82% more than the national average, earning $43,935 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 Gersting
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