How common is the surname Maurer?

20,707 people in the United States had the surname Maurer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,910 Americans. It ranked 1,729th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Maurer?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Maurer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Maurer?

Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 49th Prime Minister of Romania (1961-1974), followed by Friedrich Maurer.

Where is the surname Maurer most common?

Wikidata records people named Maurer in the United States, Romania and Austria and 1 other country.

Is the surname Maurer getting more or less common?

More common. 20,333 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 20,707 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Maurer

A German surname, carried by 20,707 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M660

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maurer is more common than 98.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Maurer.

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 20,707 people named Maurer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,910 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 20,333.

#1,729

rank among US surnames

20,707

people in 2010

7.0

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #1,616)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,720	Greenberg	20,897	14,775
#1,721	Finn	20,852	14,807
#1,722	Venegas	20,851	14,807
#1,723	McNeal	20,778	14,859
#1,724	Metzger	20,771	14,864
#1,725	Coulter	20,757	14,874
#1,726	Beal	20,752	14,878

Who is named Maurer

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

96% of people named Maurer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Maurers

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ion Gheorghe Maurer
49th Prime Minister of Romania (1961-1974)
Friedrich Maurer
Austrian handball player (1912–1958)
Alfred Maurer
American artist (1868-1932)
Lea Maurer
American swimmer, born 1971
Walter Maurer
American wrestler (1893-1983)
Hubert Maurer
Austrian artist (1738–1818)
Jimmy Maurer
American soccer player, born 1988

Notable Maurers come mostly from the United States (4), Romania (1) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Maurer

Maurer has the Soundex code M660, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M660.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Maurer come from?: Borrowed from German Maurer.
How common is the surname Maurer?: 20,707 people in the United States had the surname Maurer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,910 Americans. It ranked 1,729th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Maurer?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Maurer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Maurer?: Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 49th Prime Minister of Romania (1961-1974), followed by Friedrich Maurer.
Where is the surname Maurer most common?: Wikidata records people named Maurer in the United States, Romania and Austria and 1 other country.
Is the surname Maurer getting more or less common?: More common. 20,333 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 20,707 in 2010, up 1.8%.