Explore the Family Name Mumpower

The meaning of Mumpower

Probably an Americanized form of German Mumper, or of Mumbrauer, an occupational name in Braunschweig (Brunswick) for a brewer of a local beer called Mumme. A heavily hopped barley beer with low alcohol content, it was first brewed in 1492 by a man named Mumme.

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

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the surname Mumpower has seen a slight decrease in popularity from 2000 to 2010. In 2000, the surname ranked at 30,929 and then fell to 32,031 by 2010, marking a 3.56% decrease. However, the actual count of individuals with the Mumpower surname increased slightly from 710 in 2000 to 720 in 2010, demonstrating a 1.41% growth. Despite this growth in count, the surname's proportion per 100,000 people declined by 7.69%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#30,929	#32,031	-3.56%
Count	710	720	1.41%
Proportion per 100k	0.26	0.24	-7.69%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Mumpower

In terms of ethnicity, again according to the Decennial U.S. Census, the Mumpower surname is predominantly associated with individuals identifying as White, accounting for 97.18% in 2000 and a nearly similar proportion of 97.08% in 2010. The data shows a small change among those reporting two or more ethnic identities, going up from 0.85% in 2000 to 0.97% in 2010, an increase of 14.12%. Meanwhile, the percentage of individuals identified as Hispanic dropped slightly by 2.35% over the same period, from 0.85% to 0.83%. The data for Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, and American Indian and Alaskan Native were either zero or suppressed for privacy reasons.

	2000	2010	Change
White	97.18%	97.08%	-0.1%
Two or More Races	0.85%	0.97%	14.12%
Hispanic	0.85%	0.83%	-2.35%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0.7%	0%	0%