Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Almas

    An Arabic occupational surname, carried by 587 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A452

    Almas: #37,848 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Almas #37,848, 587 people Almas: #37,848 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Almas #37,848, 587 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Almas is more common than 76.7% of them.

    Origin

    Arabic origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from Arabic أَلْمَاس (ʔalmās, “diamond”), a surname predominantly found in Pakistan. * Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Almas, plural form of Alma. * Borrowed from Hungarian Almás, from alma (“apple”), thus a metonymic occupational surname for a grower or seller of apples.

    Almas is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 179 Arabic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 587 people named Almas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 525,972 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 491.

    #37,848
    rank among US surnames
    587
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +19.6%
    change since 2000 (was #41,722)

    Who is named Almas

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    69% of people named Almas identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 7.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Almas

    Almas has the Soundex code A452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A452.

    Other Arabic surnames

    All 179 Arabic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Almas come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from Arabic أَلْمَاس (ʔalmās, “diamond”), a surname predominantly found in Pakistan. * Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Almas, plural form of Alma. * Borrowed from Hungarian Almás, from alma (“apple”), thus a metonymic occupational surname for a grower or seller of…
    How common is the surname Almas?
    587 people in the United States had the surname Almas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 525,972 Americans. It ranked 37,848th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Almas?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Almas identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Almas?
    Almas is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Almas getting more or less common?
    More common. 491 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 587 in 2010, up 20%.