# Unser (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 726 |
| US rank (2010) | 31,790 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 425,269 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.5% (715 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a south German surname, from the adjective sehr (“wounded, injured”) with the prefix un-. * As a north German surname, from the small town Unsen in Hameln.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Unser 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) | 97% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.6% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Unser in the United States.

## People named Unser

- Bobby Unser, American racecar driver (1934-2021)
- Jerry Unser, American racing driver (1932-1959)
- Al Unser, American racecar driver (1939–2021)
- Al Unser Jr., American racecar driver
- Johnny Unser, American racing driver

## Similar surnames

Unger, Unsworth, Ungar.

## 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.