Bayer

At the 2020 census, 10,305 Americans bore the surname Bayer — 3,392nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,305
Rank: 3,392nd
How common: 1 in 29,000
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German, from an ethnonym

. The surname is converged from both Bavaria and Middle High German beieren (“to ring a bell”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Bayer

Johann Bayer (1572–1625)German lawyer and uranographer
Herbert Bayer (1900–1985)Austrian architect, photographer, graphic and typographer
Vanessa Bayer (born 1981)American actress and comedian
Sebastian Bayer (born 1986)German long jumper
Friderika Bayer (born 1971)Hungarian singer
Carole Bayer Sager (born 1944)American lyricist, singer and songwriter
Samuel Bayer (born 1962)American film editor and cinematographer
Konrad Bayer (1932–1964)Austrian writer and poet

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

Surnames like Bayer

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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.