How common is the surname Hammers?

2,569 people in the United States had the surname Hammers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 120,181 Americans. It ranked 12,130th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hammers?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hammers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hammers getting more or less common?

More common. 2,361 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,569 in 2010, up 8.8%.

The surname Hammers

A surname, carried by 2,569 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H562

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hammers is more common than 92.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,569 people named Hammers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 120,181 Americans. That is up 8.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,361.

#12,130

rank among US surnames

2,569

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+8.8%

change since 2000 (was #12,112)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,121	Topp	2,572	120,041
#12,124	Naber	2,571	120,088
#12,127	Nath	2,570	120,134
#12,130	Hammers	2,569	120,181
#12,132	Sugg	2,568	120,228
#12,136	Morelos	2,567	120,275

Who is named Hammers

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

93% of people named Hammers identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hammers

Hammers has the Soundex code H562, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H562.

Questions

How common is the surname Hammers?: 2,569 people in the United States had the surname Hammers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 120,181 Americans. It ranked 12,130th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hammers?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hammers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hammers getting more or less common?: More common. 2,361 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,569 in 2010, up 8.8%.