The SAUER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,474	2151	0.006	57
United States (1880 census)	2,897	2101	0.006	58
Change since 1880	+12577	-50	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	507	3167	0.003	31
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SAUER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,084	2907	0.003	32
Wisconsin	1,080	464	0.020	201
New York	1,014	1810	0.005	53
Florida	866	2384	0.005	54
Ohio	841	1620	0.007	74
Top States for SAUER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	141	513	0.022	220
Wisconsin	1,080	464	0.020	201
Minnesota	800	565	0.016	163
South Dakota	116	694	0.015	154
Idaho	177	963	0.014	137

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of SAUER

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 SAUER 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 SAUER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	203	1.31
Mixed Race	149	0.96
Asian/Pacific	96	0.62
Black/African American	48	0.31
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.18
White (Caucasian)	14,951	96.62

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

Similar names to SAUER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAUER.

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.