How common is the surname Baumann?

14,644 people in the United States had the surname Baumann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 21,083 Americans. It ranked 2,461st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Baumann?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Baumann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Baumann?

Oscar Baumann, Austrian cartographer (1864-1899), followed by Romed Baumann.

Where is the surname Baumann most common?

Wikidata records people named Baumann in Germany, the United States and the Austrian Empire and 1 other country.

Is the surname Baumann getting more or less common?

More common. 14,131 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 14,644 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Baumann

A German surname, carried by 14,644 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B550

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Baumann is more common than 98.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Baumann.

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 14,644 people named Baumann in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 21,083 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 14,131.

#2,461

rank among US surnames

14,644

people in 2010

5.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #2,349)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,452	Demarco	14,731	20,959
#2,453	Hummel	14,715	20,982
#2,454	Almanza	14,708	20,992
#2,455	Merchant	14,692	21,015
#2,456	Grubb	14,673	21,042
#2,458	Harman	14,658	21,063
#2,459	Durbin	14,650	21,075

Who is named Baumann

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

95% of people named Baumann identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Baumanns

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Oscar Baumann
Austrian cartographer (1864-1899)
Romed Baumann
Austrian alpine skier, born 1986
Ken Baumann
American actor, guionist and editor, born 1989
Aviva Baumann
American actress, born 1984
Manfred Baumann
Austrian photographer, born 1968
Johann Heinrich Baumann
Baltic German artist (1753-1832)

Notable Baumanns come mostly from Germany (2), the United States (2) and the Austrian Empire (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Baumann

Baumann has the Soundex code B550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B550.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Baumann come from?: Borrowed from German Baumann.
How common is the surname Baumann?: 14,644 people in the United States had the surname Baumann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 21,083 Americans. It ranked 2,461st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Baumann?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Baumann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Baumann?: Oscar Baumann, Austrian cartographer (1864-1899), followed by Romed Baumann.
Where is the surname Baumann most common?: Wikidata records people named Baumann in Germany, the United States and the Austrian Empire and 1 other country.
Is the surname Baumann getting more or less common?: More common. 14,131 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 14,644 in 2010, up 3.6%.