Find out how popular the last name Bauman is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Bauman.

Bauman, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Bauman surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Bauman in America

Bauman is the 2040th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Bauman surname appeared 17,641 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 6 people would have the surname Bauman.

We can also compare 2010 data for Bauman to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Bauman

The surname BAUMAN is of German origin, deriving from the word "bau" which means "to cultivate" or "to build". It originated in the 14th century as an occupational name for someone who worked as a builder or farmer.

The earliest recorded instance of the name BAUMAN comes from the town of Bayreuth in Bavaria, Germany, where a "Hans Bauman" is mentioned in a 1387 municipal record. Other early spellings of the name include Baumann, Bawman, and Bouwman.

In the 15th century, a Johann Bauman was recorded as a master builder who worked on the construction of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. His son, also named Johann Bauman, continued the family trade and oversaw the completion of the cathedral's famous tiled roof in 1433.

The BAUMAN name appears in several other historical records from various regions of Germany and neighboring countries. For example, a "Peter Bauman" is listed as a landowner in the 1497 tax records of the town of Marburg, in what is now the state of Hesse.

One of the earliest known bearers of the BAUMAN name in North America was Hans Bauman, who arrived in Pennsylvania from the Palatinate region of Germany in 1727. He settled in what is now Lancaster County and worked as a farmer.

Notable people with the surname BAUMAN include Nicolaus Bauman (1598-1644), a German poet and theologian; Johann Bauman (1833-1910), a Swiss horticulturist and botanist; and Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017), a Polish-British sociologist and philosopher.

Other historically significant individuals with the BAUMAN surname were Gottlieb Bauman (1765-1845), a German-American farmer and Revolutionary War veteran; and Anna Bauman (1789-1876), one of the first female settlers in the Oregon Territory of the United States.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Bauman

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Bauman.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Bauman was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Bauman has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Bauman was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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