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    The surname Hammersley

    An English place surname, carried by 1,026 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex H562

    Hammersley: #24,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hammersley #24,404, 1,026 people Hammersley: #24,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hammersley #24,404, 1,026 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hammersley is more common than 85% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a lost place believed to have been in Staffordshire, perhaps from an Old English personal name *Hamela + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Hammersley 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 1,026 people named Hammersley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 300,922 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 985.

    #24,404
    rank among US surnames
    1,026
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #23,922)

    Who is named Hammersley

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

    92% of people named Hammersley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    • Hamersley

    Surnames that sound like Hammersley

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

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Hammersley come from?
    Habitational surname from a lost place believed to have been in Staffordshire, perhaps from an Old English personal name *Hamela + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Hammersley?
    1,026 people in the United States had the surname Hammersley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 300,922 Americans. It ranked 24,404th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hammersley?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Hammersley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Hammersley?
    Hammersley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hammersley getting more or less common?
    More common. 985 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,026 in 2010, up 4.2%.
    What are other spellings of Hammersley?
    Hamersley.