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The surname Baumgarten

A German surname, carried by 2,445 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B526

Baumgarten: #12,652 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Baumgarten #12,652, 2,445 people Baumgarten: #12,652 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Baumgarten #12,652, 2,445 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Baumgarten is more common than 92.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

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 2,445 people named Baumgarten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 126,276 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,391.

#12,652
rank among US surnames
2,445
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+2.3%
change since 2000 (was #11,986)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,644Konopka2,447126,173
#12,649Calero2,446126,225
#12,652Fullen2,445126,276
#12,656Houghtaling2,444126,328
#12,659Rayfield2,443126,380
#12,661Basquez2,442126,431

Who is named Baumgarten

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

97% of people named Baumgarten identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 97%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • Two or more races 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Baumgarten

Baumgarten has the Soundex code B526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B526.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Baumgarten come from?
Baumgarten is German in origin.
How common is the surname Baumgarten?
2,445 people in the United States had the surname Baumgarten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 126,276 Americans. It ranked 12,652nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Baumgarten?
In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Baumgarten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Baumgarten getting more or less common?
More common. 2,391 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,445 in 2010, up 2.3%.