# Hamm (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hamm/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 26,726 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,314 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 11,552 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.3% (26,392 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English and German surname, from hamm (“enclosure, land by a stream”). * Also as a German surname, from Hamm in Westphalia, itself from a Low German derivative of Proto-Germanic *hammō (“corner, hollow, bend”), used in the sense "river bend," similar to Hamburg.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hamm in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hamm in the United States.

## People named Hamm

- Mia Hamm, American soccer player
- Jon Hamm, American actor (born 1971)
- Paul Hamm, American artistic gymnast (born 1982)
- Stuart Hamm, American musician
- Harold Hamm, American businessman
- Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
- Munro Leaf, American writer and illustrator (1905–1976)

## Similar surnames

Ham, Hahm, Hamme, Huynh, Hahn, Hanna, Haney, Han, Hannah, Heim, Hein, Hume.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.