How common is the surname Hallmark?

4,426 people in the United States had the surname Hallmark in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,757 Americans. It ranked 7,517th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hallmark?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Hallmark identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hallmark getting more or less common?

About as common. 4,428 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,426 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Hallmark

A surname, carried by 4,426 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H456

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hallmark is more common than 95.4% of them.

Origin

The company is named after its founder, J. C. Hall, and a reference to hallmark (“official marking”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,426 people named Hallmark in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,757 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,428.

#7,517

rank among US surnames

4,426

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #6,980)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,508	Cullum	4,435	69,616
#7,511	Seger	4,434	69,631
#7,512	More	4,432	69,663
#7,513	McQuade	4,430	69,694
#7,514	Duquette	4,429	69,710
#7,515	Shuster	4,428	69,726
#7,516	Hans	4,427	69,741

Who is named Hallmark

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

94% of people named Hallmark identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Questions

Where does the surname Hallmark come from?: The company is named after its founder, J. C. Hall, and a reference to hallmark (“official marking”).
How common is the surname Hallmark?: 4,426 people in the United States had the surname Hallmark in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,757 Americans. It ranked 7,517th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hallmark?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Hallmark identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hallmark getting more or less common?: About as common. 4,428 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,426 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.