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 This is posted using just Zip Code data and that it is suspected out of date and old addresses for people as well as not all individuals are listed, but the graphics do represent multiple households in a single zip code by the stacking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:
Sauser’s January 2015:
Sausser’s January 2015:
Souser’s January 2015:
Sauzer’s January 2015
Suesser’s January 2015:
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