How common is the surname Cammack?

2,334 people in the United States had the surname Cammack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,282 Americans. It ranked 13,127th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Cammack?

Kat Cammack, American politician (born 1988).

Where is the surname Cammack most common?

Wikidata records people named Cammack in the United States.

Is the surname Cammack getting more or less common?

More common. 2,181 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,334 in 2010, up 7.0%.

The surname Cammack

An English place surname, carried by 2,334 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cammack is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

Various origins: * Reduced form of McCammack. * Variant of Cammock, a habitational surname. * From Old English cammoc (“hog fennel, sulphurwort”), a nickname for a prickly person.

Cammack is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,334 people named Cammack in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 132,282 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,181.

#13,127

rank among US surnames

2,334

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+7%

change since 2000 (was #12,919)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,121	Hinnant	2,336	132,168
#13,124	Mowrey	2,335	132,225
#13,127	Flannigan	2,334	132,282
#13,132	Meldrum	2,332	132,395
#13,133	Hutsell	2,331	132,452

Who is named Cammack

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

80% of people named Cammack identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Two or more races 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Cammacks

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Kat Cammack
American politician (born 1988)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Cammack

Camacho

Cammack has the Soundex code C520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C520.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Cammack come from?: Various origins: * Reduced form of McCammack. * Variant of Cammock, a habitational surname. * From Old English cammoc (“hog fennel, sulphurwort”), a nickname for a prickly person.
How common is the surname Cammack?: 2,334 people in the United States had the surname Cammack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,282 Americans. It ranked 13,127th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cammack?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Cammack identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Cammack?: Kat Cammack, American politician (born 1988).
Where is the surname Cammack most common?: Wikidata records people named Cammack in the United States.
What type of surname is Cammack?: Cammack is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Cammack getting more or less common?: More common. 2,181 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,334 in 2010, up 7.0%.