How common is the surname Mager?

2,980 people in the United States had the surname Mager in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,606 Americans. It ranked 10,721st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mager?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Mager identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Mager getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,497 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,980 in 2010, down 15%.

The surname Mager

A surname, carried by 2,980 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mager is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,980 people named Mager in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,606 Americans. That is down 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,497.

#10,721

rank among US surnames

2,980

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

-14.8%

change since 2000 (was #8,657)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,715	Reading	2,982	103,536
#10,717	Nicoletti	2,981	103,571
#10,721	Mager	2,980	103,606
#10,724	Chidester	2,979	103,641
#10,726	Hennigan	2,978	103,675
#10,728	Spoon	2,977	103,710
#10,729	Lumley	2,976	103,745

Who is named Mager

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

93% of people named Mager identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mager

Mager has the Soundex code M260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M260.

Questions

How common is the surname Mager?: 2,980 people in the United States had the surname Mager in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,606 Americans. It ranked 10,721st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mager?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Mager identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Mager getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,497 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,980 in 2010, down 15%.