Find out how popular the last name Guting is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Guting.

Guting, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Guting surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Guting in America

Guting is the 124548th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Guting surname appeared 138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Guting.

We can also compare 2010 data for Guting to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Guting

The surname Guting is believed to have originated in Germany during the Middle Ages. It likely derived from an Old German word "gut," meaning good or virtuous, combined with the suffix "-ing," indicating belonging or descendant. This suggests the name may have initially referred to someone with a good or virtuous reputation.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in the Codex Diplomaticus, a collection of medieval documents from the former Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, dating back to the 11th century. Here, a certain "Guthingus de Herbipolensis" is mentioned, indicating a person named Guthing from the Würzburg region.

The Guting name also appears in various other historical records from the 13th and 14th centuries, such as the Annales Stadenses, a chronicle from the Bremen region, and the Codex Traditiones Corbeienses, a collection of documents from the Corvey Abbey in Westphalia.

Notable individuals bearing this surname include Johannes Guting, a scholar and theologian born in Nuremberg around 1450, who studied and taught at several universities in Germany and Italy. Another early bearer of the name was Hans Guting, a merchant and alderman in the city of Augsburg during the late 15th century.

Moving into the 16th century, we find Nikolaus Guting, a Lutheran pastor and reformer born in Saxony in 1529, who played a role in the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Around the same time, a certain Christoph Guting served as a magistrate in the city of Lübeck in northern Germany.

In the 17th century, a noteworthy figure was Johann Guting, a German jurist and legal scholar born in 1598 in Erfurt, who authored several influential works on civil and canon law.

Over the centuries, the Guting name has undergone various spelling variations, such as Gutting, Guttingen, and Guttinger, often reflecting regional dialects and linguistic evolutions. However, the core meaning and origin of the name appear to have remained consistent, tracing back to its roots in the German language and medieval history.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Guting

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Guting.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Guting was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Guting has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Guting was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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