Unger

14,234 people in the United States were counted with the surname Unger in the 2020 census, making it the 2,472nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,000.

By the numbers

People: 14,234
Rank: 2,472nd
How common: 1 in 21,000
Per 100,000: 4.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Unger

Deborah Kara Unger (born 1966)Canadian actress
Billy Unger (born 1995)American actor
Franz Unger (1800–1870)Austrian botanist and paleontologist
Tobias Unger (born 1979)German sprinter
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (born 1947)Brazilian philosopher and politician
Caroline Unger (1803–1877)Austro-Hungarian contralto
Werner Unger (1931–2002)German footballer

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

Surnames like Unger

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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.