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    The surname Clum

    A surname, carried by 1,061 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C450

    Clum: #23,817 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Clum #23,817, 1,061 people Clum: #23,817 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Clum #23,817, 1,061 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clum is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,061 people named Clum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,995 Americans. That is down 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,083.

    #23,817
    rank among US surnames
    1,061
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2%
    change since 2000 (was #22,222)

    Who is named Clum

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

    94% of people named Clum identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Clum

    Clum has the Soundex code C450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C450.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Clum?
    1,061 people in the United States had the surname Clum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,995 Americans. It ranked 23,817th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clum?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Clum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Clum getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,083 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,061 in 2010, down 2.0%.