Helmer

4,734 people in the United States were counted with the surname Helmer in the 2020 census, making it the 6,837th most common in the country. That is about one person in 63,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,734
Rank: 6,837th
How common: 1 in 63,100
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Helmer

Thomas Helmer (born 1965)German footballer
Hermann Helmer (1849–1919)German-Austrian architect

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

Surnames like Helmer

Also a first name

Helmer has been given to 835 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1917. 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.