Geib is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Geib
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Germany
Meaning:

The surname Geib is variation of Gabor. Descendant of Gabor, Hungarian form of Gabriel meaning "God is my strength".

How popular is Geib?

Geib is common in United States, Germany, Brazil, France, Canada.

Geib is ranked 60807 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Geib bearers increased by 7.96 per cent in 2010 US census to 2915 since 2000, the surname slipped by 82 spots and ranked at 10919. The last name was found in around 10 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 96.47 97.26
Hispanic or Latino 2.09 1.11
Others 0.89 1.11
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.41 0.3
Geib is quite popular family name mostly used in United States however Luxembourg is ahead in terms of density. Around 8279 people have been found who wears Geib as their family name. Geib is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Geib:
10,907 United States3,700
3,153 Germany3,382
Countries with hundreds of Geib:
16,199 Brazil502
35,639 France289
18,967 Canada191
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
1,442 Luxembourg64
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
53,243 England50
5,406 Paraguay20
52,281 Austria15
46,196 Switzerland12
126,214 Poland11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
49,203 Hungary9
101,176 Netherlands6

Immigrants to US

From Germany

Cathar. Geib hailed from Bavaria. 19 years old embarked for USA from Havre on American Union and arrived on June 24, 1852. Fred. Geib (27) Laborer, Laborer Fried. Geib, John Geib, aged 10, Peter Geib (31) Engineer, Henry Geib (17) Farmer, J. Geib (19) Farmer, 23 years old Christian Geib, Elisabeth Geib (18) Farmer, and 173 other Geib around 52.1% of whom were farmer while others worked as shoemaker and servant, baker, butcher, musician, smith, locksmith migrated to US.

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