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The surname Garmon

A surname, carried by 5,403 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G655

Garmon: #6,318 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Garmon #6,318, 5,403 people Garmon: #6,318 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Garmon #6,318, 5,403 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Garmon is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

* As an Irish surname, variant of Gorman. * As an English and German surname, variant of Garman.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,403 people named Garmon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 57,143 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,183.

#6,318
rank among US surnames
5,403
people in 2010
1.8
per 100,000 Americans
+4.2%
change since 2000 (was #6,102)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,312Reeve5,40657,112
#6,313Pepe5,40557,122
#6,315Gagliardi5,40457,133
#6,318Loucks5,40357,143
#6,321Faris5,40157,165

Who is named Garmon

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

70% of people named Garmon identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 70%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Garmon

Garmon has the Soundex code G655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G655.

Questions

Where does the surname Garmon come from?
* As an Irish surname, variant of Gorman. * As an English and German surname, variant of Garman.
How common is the surname Garmon?
5,403 people in the United States had the surname Garmon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 57,143 Americans. It ranked 6,318th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Garmon?
In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Garmon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Garmon getting more or less common?
More common. 5,183 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,403 in 2010, up 4.2%.