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The surname Bumgardner

A German occupational surname, carried by 4,264 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B526

Bumgardner: #7,783 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bumgardner #7,783, 4,264 people Bumgardner: #7,783 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bumgardner #7,783, 4,264 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bumgardner is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation], variant of Baumgartner.

Bumgardner is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 4,264 people named Bumgardner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 72,407 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,107.

#7,783
rank among US surnames
4,264
people in 2010
1.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.8%
change since 2000 (was #7,476)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,778Saltzman4,26772,357
#7,781Strachan4,26672,374
#7,782Arceo4,26572,391
#7,783Bumgardner4,26472,407
#7,784Henninger4,26272,441

Who is named Bumgardner

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

94% of people named Bumgardner identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bumgardner

Bumgardner 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 Bumgardner come from?
Bumgardner is German in origin.
How common is the surname Bumgardner?
4,264 people in the United States had the surname Bumgardner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,407 Americans. It ranked 7,783rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bumgardner?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bumgardner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Bumgardner?
Bumgardner is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Bumgardner getting more or less common?
More common. 4,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,264 in 2010, up 3.8%.