The Gorge surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 333 people carried this name — #60,505 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is down 2% from 340 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 456 people named Gorge.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 58 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
56 people named Gorge live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
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.
Who carried it
People named Gorge,
with a public archive behind them.
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Paul Gorge 1856–1941 · painter -
Hugo Gorge 1883–1934 · architect -
Adele Gorge 1861–1940
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Max Gorge 1868–1940
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Mořic Gorge 1875–1940
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Josef Gorge 1888–1940
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gorge.
- Gordo 466 · U.S. census
- Gordon 161,833 · U.S. census
- Gore 25,648 · U.S. census
- Gorecki 2,320 · U.S. census
- Gorel 171 · U.S. census
- Gorgan 118 · U.S. census
- Gorges 870 · U.S. census
- Gori 582 · U.S. census
- Goria 160 · U.S. census
- Gorin 844 · U.S. census
- Goris 1,727 · U.S. census
- Gorka 951 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Gorge is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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