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    The surname Hallums

    An English place surname, carried by 636 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H452

    Hallums: #35,395 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hallums #35,395, 636 people Hallums: #35,395 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hallums #35,395, 636 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hallums is more common than 78.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Probably a habitational surname from a place in Surrey, from Middle English hulle (“hill”) + hamme (“enclosure”). Alternatively, a variant of Hallum.

    Hallums is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 636 people named Hallums in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 485,449 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 554.

    #35,395
    rank among US surnames
    636
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.8%
    change since 2000 (was #37,728)

    Who is named Hallums

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

    61% of people named Hallums identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 6.1% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 61%
    • White (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Two or more races 6.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

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    Surnames that sound like Hallums

    Hallums has the Soundex code H452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H452.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hallums come from?
    Probably a habitational surname from a place in Surrey, from Middle English hulle (“hill”) + hamme (“enclosure”). Alternatively, a variant of Hallum.
    How common is the surname Hallums?
    636 people in the United States had the surname Hallums in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 485,449 Americans. It ranked 35,395th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hallums?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Hallums identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Hallums?
    Hallums is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hallums getting more or less common?
    More common. 554 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 636 in 2010, up 15%.