How common is the surname Allgeier?

1,017 people in the United States had the surname Allgeier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,585 Americans. It ranked 24,572nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Allgeier getting more or less common?

More common. 991 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,017 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Allgeier

A German surname, carried by 1,017 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A426

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Allgeier is more common than 84.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Allgeier.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,017 people named Allgeier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 303,585 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 991.

#24,572

rank among US surnames

1,017

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #23,815)

Who is named Allgeier

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

97% of people named Allgeier identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Two or more races 1.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Allgeyer
Allgyer

Surnames that sound like Allgeier

Allgeier has the Soundex code A426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A426.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Allgeier come from?: Borrowed from German Allgeier.
How common is the surname Allgeier?: 1,017 people in the United States had the surname Allgeier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,585 Americans. It ranked 24,572nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Allgeier?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Allgeier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
Is the surname Allgeier getting more or less common?: More common. 991 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,017 in 2010, up 2.6%.
What are other spellings of Allgeier?: Allgeyer and Allgyer.