Zimmer

Zimmer is the 2,128th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,541 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,100.

By the numbers

People: 16,541
Rank: 2,128th
How common: 1 in 18,100
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Zimmer

Hans Zimmer (born 1957)German film composer
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999)American novelist and editor
Constance Zimmer (born 1970)American actress
Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943)German Indologist and linguist
Gabriele Zimmer (born 1955)German politician
Carl Zimmer (born 1966)American science writer and blogger
John Todd Zimmer (1889–1957)American ornithologist, entomologist
Jean Zimmer (born 1993)German footballer

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

Surnames like Zimmer

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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.