Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Sonner

    A German surname, carried by 900 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S560

    Sonner: #26,949 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sonner #26,949, 900 people Sonner: #26,949 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sonner #26,949, 900 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sonner is more common than 83.4% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    From the German surname, from the obsolete Middle High German verb sunnen (“to bleach”). Compare Sonne.

    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 900 people named Sonner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 343,051 Americans. That is down 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 973.

    #26,949
    rank among US surnames
    900
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.5%
    change since 2000 (was #24,162)

    Who is named Sonner

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

    96% of people named Sonner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sonner

    Sonner has the Soundex code S560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S560.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sonner come from?
    From the German surname, from the obsolete Middle High German verb sunnen (“to bleach”). Compare Sonne.
    How common is the surname Sonner?
    900 people in the United States had the surname Sonner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 343,051 Americans. It ranked 26,949th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sonner?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sonner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Sonner getting more or less common?
    Less common. 973 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 900 in 2010, down 7.5%.