Messner
At the 2020 census, 4,705 Americans bore the surname Messner — 6,880th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 63,500.
By the numbers
- People
- 4,705
- Rank
- 6,880th
- How common
- 1 in 63,500
- Per 100,000
- 1.6
Where the name comes from
Jewish and south German occupational surname for a churchwarden, from Middle High German mesnære, from Old High German mesināri, from Latin mansionarius, a derivative of mansio (“abode, dwelling”). Compare Mesner. This is also Slavicized as Slovene Mežnar (see Meznarich).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Messner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Messner
- Reinhold Messner (born 1944)Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer
- Zbigniew Messner (1929–2014)Polish Communist economist and politician
- Johnny Messner (born 1970)American actor
- Tammy Faye Messner (1942–2007)American evangelist
- Heinrich Messner (1939–2023)Austrian alpine skier
- Mirko Messner (born 1948)Austrian politician and writer
- Günther Messner (1946–1970)Italian mountain climber
- Fritz Messner (1912–1945)field hockey player
People named Messner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Messner
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.