How common is the surname Bumgarner?

6,246 people in the United States had the surname Bumgarner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,431 Americans. It ranked 5,567th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bumgarner?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bumgarner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Bumgarner?

Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player.

Where is the surname Bumgarner most common?

Wikidata records people named Bumgarner in the United States.

Is the surname Bumgarner getting more or less common?

More common. 6,104 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,246 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Bumgarner

A German occupational surname, carried by 6,246 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B526

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bumgarner is more common than 96.6% of them.

Origin

German origin

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

Bumgarner 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 6,246 people named Bumgarner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 49,431 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,104.

#5,567

rank among US surnames

6,246

people in 2010

2.1

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #5,254)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,562	Duffey	6,251	49,391
#5,563	Browder	6,249	49,407
#5,566	Ingraham	6,248	49,415
#5,567	Bumgarner	6,246	49,431
#5,568	Schenck	6,245	49,439

Who is named Bumgarner

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

95% of people named Bumgarner identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Bumgarners

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Madison Bumgarner
American baseball player, born 1989

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bumgarner

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bumgarner come from?: Bumgarner is German in origin.
How common is the surname Bumgarner?: 6,246 people in the United States had the surname Bumgarner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,431 Americans. It ranked 5,567th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bumgarner?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bumgarner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Bumgarner?: Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player.
Where is the surname Bumgarner most common?: Wikidata records people named Bumgarner in the United States.
What type of surname is Bumgarner?: Bumgarner is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Bumgarner getting more or less common?: More common. 6,104 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,246 in 2010, up 2.3%.