Bauer

At the 2020 census, 62,667 Americans bore the surname Bauer — 527th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,770.

By the numbers

People: 62,667
Rank: 527th
How common: 1 in 4,770
Per 100,000: 21.0

Where the name comes from

Origin German

As a German and Jewish surname, from German Bauer (“farmer”). Compare Bower.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bauer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Bauer

Bruno Bauer (1809–1882)German philosopher and theologian
Gustav Bauer (1870–1944)German trade unionist and chancellor
Otto Bauer (1881–1938)Austrian Social Democrat
John Bauer (1882–1918)Swedish painter and illustrator
Steven Bauer (born 1956)Euro-Indigenous Cuban-American character actor, producer, musician, and entrepreneur
Rudolf Bauer (1879–1932)Hungarian discus thrower
Chris Bauer (born 1966)American actor
Robert Bauer (born 1995)German association football player

People named Bauer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bauer

Also a first name

Bauer has been given to 875 American babies as a first name since 1996, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.