Messmer

2,718 people in the United States were counted with the surname Messmer in the 2020 census, making it the 11,141st most common in the country. That is about one person in 110,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,718
Rank: 11,141st
How common: 1 in 110,000
Per 100,000: 0.91

Where the name comes from

Origin German

German, Swiss/gsw, and swg surname, a variant of Messner.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Messmer

Pierre Messmer (1916–2007)83rd Prime Minister of France
Magali Messmer (born 1971)triathlete
Nikolaus Messmer (1954–2016)Kyrgyzstani Catholic priest
Otto Messmer (1892–1983)American animator

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

Surnames like Messmer

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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.