# Sommer (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sommer/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 11,662 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,080 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 26,474 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.3% (11,624 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Norwegian surname, from the noun sommer (“summer”). * Also as a German surname, from Middle Low German somere (“pack animal”), probably derived from Latin sagma (“pack saddle”). * As an English, Scottish, and German surname, variant of Summer.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sommer in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sommer in the United States, Austria and France.

## People named Sommer

- Rich Sommer, American actor
- Josef Sommer, American actor (b. 1934)
- Juergen Sommer, American soccer player
- Bert Sommer, American folk singer, songwriter and actor (1949-1990)
- Christine Sommer, Austrian actress
- Roger Sommer, aviator (1877-1965)

## Similar surnames

Summer, Simer, Schommer, Sonner, Skinner, Seymour, Sumner, Sonnier, Shaner, Seymore, Senior, Samora.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.