How common is the surname Bamberger?

1,161 people in the United States had the surname Bamberger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,931 Americans. It ranked 22,216th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bamberger?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Bamberger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Bamberger?

Simon Bamberger, American politician (1846-1926), followed by Heinrich von Bamberger.

Where is the surname Bamberger most common?

Wikidata records people named Bamberger in Germany and the United States.

Is the surname Bamberger getting more or less common?

More common. 1,118 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,161 in 2010, up 3.8%.

The surname Bamberger

A German place surname, carried by 1,161 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B516

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bamberger is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Bamberger, a habitational surname for someone from Bamberg, in Bavaria.

Bamberger is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

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 1,161 people named Bamberger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,931 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,118.

#22,216

rank among US surnames

1,161

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.8%

change since 2000 (was #21,716)

Who is named Bamberger

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

90% of people named Bamberger identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.4%
Two or more races 1.6%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Bambergers

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Simon Bamberger
American politician (1846-1926)
Heinrich von Bamberger
Austrian pathologist (1822–1888)
Louis Bamberger
American businessman and philanthropist (1855-1944)

Notable Bambergers come mostly from Germany (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Bumbarger

Surnames that sound like Bamberger

Bamberger has the Soundex code B516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B516.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bamberger come from?: Borrowed from German Bamberger, a habitational surname for someone from Bamberg, in Bavaria.
How common is the surname Bamberger?: 1,161 people in the United States had the surname Bamberger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,931 Americans. It ranked 22,216th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bamberger?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Bamberger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Bamberger?: Simon Bamberger, American politician (1846-1926), followed by Heinrich von Bamberger.
Where is the surname Bamberger most common?: Wikidata records people named Bamberger in Germany and the United States.
What type of surname is Bamberger?: Bamberger is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Bamberger getting more or less common?: More common. 1,118 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,161 in 2010, up 3.8%.
What are other spellings of Bamberger?: Bumbarger.