Kummer

Kummer is the 10,554th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,899 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,899
Rank: 10,554th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

Origin German

As a German and gsw surname, from the noun Kummer (“distress, grief”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 94.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Kummer

Ernst Kummer (1810–1893)German mathematician
Paul Kummer (1834–1912)German botanist
Mario Kummer (born 1962)East German racing cyclist and team manager
Patrizia Kummer (born 1987)Swiss snowboarder

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

Surnames like Kummer

Kumar
Kumari

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.