How common is the surname Hamm?

26,726 people in the United States had the surname Hamm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,552 Americans. It ranked 1,314th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Hamm?

Mia Hamm, American soccer player, followed by Jon Hamm.

Where is the surname Hamm most common?

Wikidata records people named Hamm in the United States.

Is the surname Hamm getting more or less common?

More common. 26,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 26,726 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Hamm

A place surname, carried by 26,726 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hamm is more common than 99.2% of them.

Origin

* 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.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 26,726 people named Hamm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 11,552 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 26,392.

#1,314

rank among US surnames

26,726

people in 2010

9.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #1,216)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,305	Sheehan	26,902	11,477
#1,306	Rutledge	26,887	11,483
#1,307	Corbin	26,876	11,488
#1,308	Dempsey	26,863	11,493
#1,309	Garland	26,779	11,529
#1,310	Carmona	26,774	11,532
#1,311	Bowling	26,762	11,537

Who is named Hamm

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

86% of people named Hamm identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Hamms

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Mia Hamm
American soccer player, born 1972
Jon Hamm
American actor (born 1971)
Paul Hamm
American artistic gymnast (born 1982)
Stuart Hamm
American musician, born 1960
Harold Hamm
American businessman, born 1945
Sam Hamm
American screenwriter, born 1955
Munro Leaf
American writer and illustrator (1905–1976)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hamm

Hamm has the Soundex code H500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H500.

Questions

Where does the surname Hamm come from?: * 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.
How common is the surname Hamm?: 26,726 people in the United States had the surname Hamm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,552 Americans. It ranked 1,314th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hamm?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Hamm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Hamm?: Mia Hamm, American soccer player, followed by Jon Hamm.
Where is the surname Hamm most common?: Wikidata records people named Hamm in the United States.
What type of surname is Hamm?: Hamm is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hamm getting more or less common?: More common. 26,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 26,726 in 2010, up 1.3%.