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    The surname Hames

    A surname, carried by 3,633 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H520

    Hames: #9,003 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hames #9,003, 3,633 people Hames: #9,003 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hames #9,003, 3,633 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hames is more common than 94.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,633 people named Hames in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,984 Americans. That is down 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,755.

    #9,003
    rank among US surnames
    3,633
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #8,131)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,994Patricio3,63684,914
    #8,999Turgeon3,63584,937
    #9,001Nolt3,63484,960
    #9,003Hames3,63384,984
    #9,006Cogan3,63185,030
    #9,011Hirst3,63085,054

    Who is named Hames

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

    82% of people named Hames identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hames

    Hames has the Soundex code H520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hames?
    3,633 people in the United States had the surname Hames in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,984 Americans. It ranked 9,003rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hames?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Hames identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hames getting more or less common?
    Less common. 3,755 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,633 in 2010, down 3.2%.