Sauer

At the 2020 census, 14,294 Americans bore the surname Sauer — 2,465th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,900.

By the numbers

People: 14,294
Rank: 2,465th
How common: 1 in 20,900
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From the German surname, from Middle High German sur (“sour”) (modern German sauer).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Sauer

Joachim Sauer (born 1949)German chemist and former Second Gentleman of Germany
Martin Sauer (born 1982)German rower
Leo Sauer (born 2005)Slovakian association football player
Emil von Sauer (1862–1942)German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher
Carl O. Sauer (1889–1975)American geographer
Gunnar Sauer (born 1964)German footballer
Wilhelm Sauer (1831–1916)Organ builder
Albert Sauer (1898–1945)German Nazi concentration camp commandant

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

Surnames like Sauer

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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.