How common is the surname Timmer?

3,054 people in the United States had the surname Timmer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,095 Americans. It ranked 10,510th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Timmer getting more or less common?

More common. 2,730 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,054 in 2010, up 12%.

What are other spellings of Timmer?

Timmers, Timmerman and Timmermans.

The surname Timmer

A Dutch occupational surname, carried by 3,054 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Timmer is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

* As a Dutch and north German surname, from Timmer (“timber”). * Also as a north German surname, variant of Thiemer, Dittmar, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *þeudu (“people”) + *mari (“famous”).

Timmer is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,054 people named Timmer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 101,095 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,730.

#10,510

rank among US surnames

3,054

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+11.9%

change since 2000 (was #10,730)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,505	Zeno	3,055	101,062
#10,510	Ferrel	3,054	101,095
#10,512	Beagle	3,053	101,129
#10,514	Konrad	3,052	101,162
#10,515	Amburgey	3,051	101,195
#10,517	Rymer	3,050	101,228

Who is named Timmer

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

94% of people named Timmer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Timmers
Timmerman
Timmermans

Surnames that sound like Timmer

Timmer has the Soundex code T560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T560.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Timmer come from?: * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Timmer (“timber”). * Also as a north German surname, variant of Thiemer, Dittmar, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *þeudu (“people”) + *mari (“famous”).
How common is the surname Timmer?: 3,054 people in the United States had the surname Timmer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,095 Americans. It ranked 10,510th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Timmer?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Timmer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Timmer?: Timmer is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Timmer getting more or less common?: More common. 2,730 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,054 in 2010, up 12%.
What are other spellings of Timmer?: Timmers, Timmerman and Timmermans.