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The surname Timmerman

A Dutch occupational surname, carried by 7,569 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex T565

Timmerman: #4,688 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Timmerman #4,688, 7,569 people Timmerman: #4,688 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Timmerman #4,688, 7,569 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Timmerman is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from Dutch Timmerman.

Timmerman 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 7,569 people named Timmerman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,791 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,252.

#4,688
rank among US surnames
7,569
people in 2010
2.6
per 100,000 Americans
+4.4%
change since 2000 (was #4,507)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#4,685Saxon7,57640,753
#4,686Bethel7,57340,769
#4,687Pearl7,57040,785
#4,688Timmerman7,56940,791

Who is named Timmerman

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

95% of people named Timmerman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Two or more races 1.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Other Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Timmerman come from?
Borrowed from Dutch Timmerman.
How common is the surname Timmerman?
7,569 people in the United States had the surname Timmerman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,791 Americans. It ranked 4,688th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Timmerman?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Timmerman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Timmerman?
Timmerman is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Timmerman getting more or less common?
More common. 7,252 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,569 in 2010, up 4.4%.