Blum

16,689 people in the United States were counted with the surname Blum in the 2020 census, making it the 2,109th most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,900.

By the numbers

People: 16,689
Rank: 2,109th
How common: 1 in 17,900
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From the German surname, from Middle High German bluome (“flower”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Blum

Léon Blum (1872–1950)French politician
Manuel Blum (born 1938)Venezuelan computer scientist
Jason Blum (born 1969)American film producer
Steve Blum (born 1960)American voice actor
Mark Blum (1950–2020)American actor
William Blum (1933–2018)American author and historian
Robert Blum (1807–1848)German democratic politician
Danny Blum (born 1991)German association football player

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

Surnames like Blum

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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.