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The BAUER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 61,979 484 0.023 230
United States (1880 census) 9,608 628 0.019 192
Change since 1880 +52371 +144 +0.004 +38
Other Countries
Australia 1,381 1188 0.008 84
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BAUER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 4,570 51 0.085 852
California 4,508 642 0.013 133
New York 3,824 364 0.020 202
Pennsylvania 3,799 253 0.031 309
Ohio 3,743 274 0.033 330
Top States for BAUER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 657 35 0.102 1,023
Wisconsin 4,570 51 0.085 852
Minnesota 3,501 71 0.071 712
South Dakota 525 63 0.070 696
Nebraska 986 97 0.058 576

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BAUER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BAUER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BAUER in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BAUER by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BAUER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BAUER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BAUER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 967 1.56
Mixed Race 607 0.98
Asian/Pacific 279 0.45
Black/African American 211 0.34
Native American/Alaskan 205 0.33
White (Caucasian) 59,711 96.34

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BAUER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BAUER in historical publications

BAUER. Germ. Boor, husbandman.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BAUER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAUER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BAUER

The following words are slight variants of BAUER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.