Sauser-Sausser-Souser-Säußer Family History

Sauser / Sausser / Souser / Sauzer / Suesser US Statistics / Jan. 2015

In early January 2015 about 1300 names and addresses were collected from public white pages listings of individuals bearing the names Souser / Sausser / Sauser / Sauzer / Suesser in the United States and Canada. I performed a similar exercise in 2001 for just Souser, and I also looked at 1990 and 2000 census data statistics and share it below in the form of charts and maps.

After de-duplication of the 2015 White Pages data it resulted in about 700 addresses to plot on maps. This is posted using just Zip Code data and that it is suspected out of date and old addresses for people as well as not all individuals are listed, but the graphics do represent multiple households in a single zip code by the stacking of points.

Based on statistics (not fully illustrated in this post), some family lines are in the process of or have terminated in the last 50 years where others are flourishing. So even though there may be a downward trend reflected below, that is likely a  consequence of a single or multiple lines terminating which genealogical data supports where as other lines under the same name are growing.

Some US Census Stats and stats used to generate this post

US Census Surname Rank (lower is more people)
1990 2000 2010 Trend 2015 White Page Addresses
Sauser 45574 32221 Pending Up 449
Sausser 78697 71554 Pending Up 165
Souser 67666 118127 Pending Down 86
Sauzer >150000 >150000 Pending Down 12
Suesser >150000 >150000 Pending Down 12

2000 Census Data Detail by Ethnic Make-up; this detail was not available for 1990 census.

name rank Toal Count on Census Prop. of Ind. per 100k for name. Cum. prop. per 100k people %NonHispanic White %NonHispanic Black %NonHispanic Asian & Pacific Islanders % Non-HispanicAmerican Indian & AK Native % 2 or More Races %Hispanic
SAUSER 32202 675 0.25 79231.01 94.96 (S) 1.04 1.48 1.04 (S)
SAUSSER 71372 255 0.09 85119.94 97.25 0 (S) 0 (S) 1.96
SOUSER 117538 137 0.05 88306.21 86.13 12.41 0 0 (S) (S)

Per: http://www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/2000surnames/surnames.pdf

Note: That in 2007 similar data was received form Ancestry.com for Souser only and some of the information has changed over the 2000 census. It also is interesting to point out, in addition to the transcription error that may account for some of the variance, that names rebound. In a future point I will do an actual statistical survey of the database for comparison.

SOUSER 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 2000
# Households 4 12 10 31 10 61
Rank 44438 34931 60690 62537 167946 111518
Note: Counts known to contain significant error due to transcription and other OCR issues.
Source: Ancestry.com 2007

Note: Individuals residing in Alaska and Hawaii are not plotted on the following graphics.

The following is a plot of those names. Sauzer and Suesser were mainly done to see how many existed as well as those names are a possibly a variation of the name which are being explored for possible connection as well.

All names (Souser / Sausser / Sauser / Sauzer / Suesser) January 2015:

All Names

Sauser’s January 2015:

Sauser’s January 2015

 

Sausser’s January 2015:

Sausser’s January 2015

Souser’s January 2015:

Souser’s January 2015

 

Sauzer’s January 2015

Sauzer’s January 2015

Suesser’s January 2015:

Suesser’s January 2015