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The Ge surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,917 people carried this name — #15,309 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 153,800 people counted. That is up 101% from 956 in 2000.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 199 people named Ge.

13 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Marne.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 13
Marne 96
Cher 39
Paris 14
Haute-Marne 6
Gironde 5
Meurthe-et-Moselle 4
Nièvre 3
Loire-Atlantique 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

34 people named Ge live in Switzerland.

They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Zurich 13
Vaud 8
Basel-Landschaft 5
Bern 4
Geneva 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In the Nordic population registers

61 people named Ge is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 61

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Who carried it

People named Ge,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Ge Cheng d. 1399 · politician
  • Ge Jing d. 1129 · gentry
  • Ge Tan d. 1181
  • Ge Lu d. 704
  • Ge Rong d. 820
  • Ge Hua d. 1783

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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