The surname Elm
A surname, carried by 1,018 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex E450
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,018 people named Elm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 963.
#24,554
rank among US surnames
1,018
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
+5.7%
change since 2000 (was #24,368)
Who is named Elm
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
74% of people named Elm identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 74%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 11%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
- Two or more races 3.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 2.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Elm has the Soundex code E450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E450.
Questions
- How common is the surname Elm?
- 1,018 people in the United States had the surname Elm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. It ranked 24,554th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Elm?
- In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Elm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Elm getting more or less common?
- More common. 963 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,018 in 2010, up 5.7%.