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    The surname Flaming

    A surname, carried by 771 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F455

    Flaming: #30,339 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Flaming #30,339, 771 people Flaming: #30,339 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Flaming #30,339, 771 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Flaming is more common than 81.3% of them.

    Origin

    From the German surname for someone from Flanders, from Middle High German vlaeminc, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz. See Flanders, Fleming, and the variant Flemming.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 771 people named Flaming in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 400,448 Americans. That is down 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 814.

    #30,339
    rank among US surnames
    771
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.3%
    change since 2000 (was #27,802)

    Who is named Flaming

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

    94% of people named Flaming identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Flaming

    Flaming has the Soundex code F455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F455.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Flaming come from?
    From the German surname for someone from Flanders, from Middle High German vlaeminc, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz. See Flanders, Fleming, and the variant Flemming.
    How common is the surname Flaming?
    771 people in the United States had the surname Flaming in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 400,448 Americans. It ranked 30,339th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Flaming?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Flaming identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Flaming getting more or less common?
    Less common. 814 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 771 in 2010, down 5.3%.