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

Baumgartner, 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 Baumgartner surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Baumgartner in America

Baumgartner is the 3156th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Baumgartner surname appeared 11,448 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 people would have the surname Baumgartner.

We can also compare 2010 data for Baumgartner 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 Baumgartner

The surname Baumgartner originated in Germany and Austria, deriving from the German words "Baum" meaning tree and "Gartner" meaning gardener or orchardist. It was an occupational surname given to those who tended or worked in orchards or gardens.

In the Middle Ages, surnames were often based on a person's occupation, location, or a distinguishing physical characteristic. The earliest recorded instances of the Baumgartner surname can be traced back to the 13th century in various regions of Germany and Austria.

One of the earliest known references to the name Baumgartner appears in the Codex Traditionum Monasterii Campilliensis, a 13th-century manuscript from the Archabbey of Campolide in Portugal, which mentions a "Chunradus Baumgartner" in the year 1280.

Another early record of the name can be found in the Stadtbuch von Nürnberg (City Book of Nuremberg), a 14th-century document that lists a "Hanns Baumgartner" as a resident of Nuremberg in 1348.

Notable individuals with the surname Baumgartner include Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (1711-1761), a German philosopher and author known for his work on aesthetics. Gottlieb Baumgartner (1753-1820) was a German theologian and philosopher who made significant contributions to the field of hermeneutics.

In the 19th century, Andreas Baumgartner (1793-1865) was an Austrian botanist and pharmacist who conducted extensive research on medicinal plants. Karl Heinrich Baumgartner (1798-1886) was a notable Swiss landscape painter known for his depictions of the Swiss Alps.

More recently, Felix Baumgartner (born 1969) is an Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper famous for his record-breaking free fall jump from the stratosphere in 2012, during which he became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Baumgartner

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

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 Baumgartner 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 Baumgartner 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 Baumgartner was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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