Sander

At the 2020 census, 8,221 Americans bore the surname Sander — 4,172nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,221
Rank: 4,172nd
How common: 1 in 36,400
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Sander

Otto Sander (1941–2013)German film, theater, and voice actor
August Sander (1876–1964)German photographer
Jil Sander (born 1943)German fashion designer
Maria Sander (1924–1999)German sprinter
Taylor Sander (born 1992)American volleyball player
Andreas Sander (born 1989)German alpine skier
Henry Frederick Conrad Sander (1847–1920)German-born horticulturist and botanist
Casey Sander (born 1956)American actor

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

Surnames like Sander

Also a first name

Sander has been given to 1,667 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2020. 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.