Explore the Family Name Cizmar

The meaning of Cizmar

Slovak, Czech (Moravian), and Rusyn (from Slovakia) (mainly Čižmár, also Čižmar, in Czechia also Čižmář and Čižmař); Serbian, Croatian, and Rusyn (from Vojvodina in Serbia and from Croatia) (Čizmar, in Croatia also Čižmar): occupational name for a cobbler or bootmaker, from a derivative of čižma or čizma ‘boot’, a loanword from Hungarian csizma or directly from Turkish çizme. Compare Chismar and Chizmar.

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How common is the last name Cizmar in the United States?

According to data derived from the Decennial U.S. Census, the surname Cizmar ranked 102,691 in popularity in the year 2000 and dropped slightly to a rank of 107,134 in 2010. This represents a decrease of 4.33%. The actual count of people with this surname saw a small increase from 162 in 2000 to 166 in 2010, marking an uptick of 2.47%. The proportion of people with the Cizmar surname per 100k population remained stable at 0.06 in both census years.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#102,691	#107,134	-4.33%
Count	162	166	2.47%
Proportion per 100k	0.06	0.06	0%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Cizmar

In terms of ethnicity, the Decennial U.S. Census data shows that the vast majority of individuals with the Cizmar surname identified as white, at 94.44% in 2000 and 93.37% in 2010, indicating a minor decrease of 1.13%. There was also a slight emergence of Asian/Pacific Islander representation within the Cizmar surname holders, which went from 0% in 2000 to 3.61% in 2010. The presence of other ethnic identities such as Hispanic, Black, and American Indian and Alaskan Native among those with the Cizmar surname remained at 0% for both census years.

	2000	2010	Change
White	94.44%	93.37%	-1.13%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	3.61%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	0%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%