How common is the surname Baham?

2,090 people in the United States had the surname Baham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,725 Americans. It ranked 14,316th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Baham?

Baham is /ˈbeɪhæm/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Baham getting more or less common?

More common. 1,796 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,090 in 2010, up 16%.

The surname Baham

A French surname, carried by 2,090 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈbeɪhæm/ 2 syllables Soundex B500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Baham is more common than 91.2% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Baham. See there for more.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,090 people named Baham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 147,725 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,796.

#14,316

rank among US surnames

2,090

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+16.4%

change since 2000 (was #15,071)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,307	Rakowski	2,092	147,584
#14,312	Dwight	2,091	147,654
#14,316	Imler	2,090	147,725

Who is named Baham

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

57% of people named Baham identified as white (not Hispanic), 34% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 57%
Black (not Hispanic) 34%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
Two or more races 3.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Bayham

Surnames that sound like Baham

Baham has the Soundex code B500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B500.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Baham come from?: Borrowed from French Baham. See there for more.
How common is the surname Baham?: 2,090 people in the United States had the surname Baham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,725 Americans. It ranked 14,316th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Baham?: In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Baham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 34% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Baham?: Baham is /ˈbeɪhæm/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Baham getting more or less common?: More common. 1,796 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,090 in 2010, up 16%.
What are other spellings of Baham?: Bayham.