Sommer

At the 2020 census, 11,163 Americans bore the surname Sommer — 3,151st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,800.

By the numbers

People: 11,163
Rank: 3,151st
How common: 1 in 26,800
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Norwegian surname, from the noun sommer (“summer”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Sommer

Yann Sommer (born 1988)Swiss association football player
Elke Sommer (born 1940)German actress
Eugénie Le Sommer (born 1989)French footballer
Rich Sommer (born 1978)American actor
Raymond Sommer (1906–1950)racecar driver
Josef Sommer (born 1934)American actor
Juergen Sommer (born 1969)American soccer player
Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914)German-Italian photographer

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

Surnames like Sommer

Also a first name

Sommer has been given to 6,080 American babies as a first name since 1966, peaking in 1977. 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.