The Bumgarner surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,246 people carried this name — #5,567 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 47,200 people counted. That is up 2% from 6,104 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Bumgarner surname

A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation], variant of Baumgartner.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bumgarner» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

27 families named Bumgarner, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 130 people lived in those households, 4.8 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 10 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Pennsylvania 9
Virginia 8
Maryland 5
North Carolina 5

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 232 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Bumgarner in American newspapers,
1923–1928.

Newspaper page from The Washington Times carrying the name Bumgarner
The Washington Times 1928-06-01
Newspaper page from Belt Valley Times carrying the name Bumgarner
Belt Valley Times 1924-05-01
Newspaper page from The Washington Daily News carrying the name Bumgarner
The Washington Daily News 1923-09-28

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 5,908 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Bumgarner,
with a public archive behind them.

  • William Bumgarner 1837–1911
  • Claude Chalmers Bumgarner 1883–1940 · writer
  • Ned Bumgarner 1951–2025 · basketball player

Wikidata (CC0) · 5 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Bumgarner,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States290 records

290 records of the Bumgarner name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 226
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 57
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Wade W. Bumgarner

    Born 1921 in North Carolina. Enlisted 1944 at Fort Bragg; driver. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Winklers Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Hickory, North Carolina.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Thomas Edward Bumgarner

    Born 1933; from West Sacramento, California. U.S. Army, air traffic control chief; died of wounds 1969 in Pleiku, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Sebost Bumgarner

    Arrived at New York in 1892 aboard the Westernland from Antwerp, aged 20; mason. From Providence, Switzerland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 290 records for Bumgarner in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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