How common is the surname Niebuhr?

1,153 people in the United States had the surname Niebuhr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,776 Americans. It ranked 22,346th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Niebuhr?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Niebuhr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Niebuhr?

Reinhold Niebuhr, American Protestant theologian (1892–1971), followed by H. Richard Niebuhr.

Where is the surname Niebuhr most common?

Wikidata records people named Niebuhr in the United States.

Is the surname Niebuhr getting more or less common?

More common. 1,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,153 in 2010, up 2.9%.

The surname Niebuhr

A German surname, carried by 1,153 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex N160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Niebuhr is more common than 86.2% 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 1,153 people named Niebuhr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,776 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,121.

#22,346

rank among US surnames

1,153

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.9%

change since 2000 (was #21,666)

Who is named Niebuhr

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

97% of people named Niebuhr identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Niebuhrs

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Reinhold Niebuhr
American Protestant theologian (1892–1971)
H. Richard Niebuhr
American theologian (1894-1962)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Niebuhr

Newbury

Niebuhr has the Soundex code N160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N160.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Niebuhr come from?: Niebuhr is German in origin.
How common is the surname Niebuhr?: 1,153 people in the United States had the surname Niebuhr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,776 Americans. It ranked 22,346th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Niebuhr?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Niebuhr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Niebuhr?: Reinhold Niebuhr, American Protestant theologian (1892–1971), followed by H. Richard Niebuhr.
Where is the surname Niebuhr most common?: Wikidata records people named Niebuhr in the United States.
Is the surname Niebuhr getting more or less common?: More common. 1,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,153 in 2010, up 2.9%.