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The SOMMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,624 2826 0.004 43
United States (1880 census) 1,523 3794 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +10101 +968 +0.001 +13
Other Countries
Australia 445 3574 0.003 27
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SOMMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,098 2738 0.003 32
New York 926 1901 0.005 49
Ohio 805 1615 0.007 71
Illinois 775 1568 0.006 62
Florida 716 2755 0.004 45
Top States for SOMMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 86 877 0.014 137
Idaho 149 1124 0.012 115
Wisconsin 601 955 0.011 112
North Dakota 61 1462 0.009 95
Missouri 490 1400 0.009 88

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

Classification and Origin of SOMMER

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 SOMMER 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 SOMMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 148 1.27
Mixed Race 112 0.96
Native American/Alaskan 78 0.67
Asian/Pacific 63 0.54
Black/African American 41 0.35
White (Caucasian) 11,182 96.2

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

Meaning of SOMMER in historical publications

(origin: Fr.) From sommer, to sum or cast up; one who directs or commands. Summere, Dan., to sum up.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to SOMMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOMMER.

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 SOMMER

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