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    The surname Hammitt

    A surname, carried by 1,557 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H530

    Hammitt: #17,951 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hammitt #17,951, 1,557 people Hammitt: #17,951 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hammitt #17,951, 1,557 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hammitt is more common than 88.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,557 people named Hammitt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 198,295 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,536.

    #17,951
    rank among US surnames
    1,557
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #17,054)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,942Navarette1,558198,168
    #17,951Tee1,557198,295
    #17,958Allbright1,556198,423

    Who is named Hammitt

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

    88% of people named Hammitt identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
    • Two or more races 3.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hammitt

    Hammitt has the Soundex code H530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H530.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hammitt?
    1,557 people in the United States had the surname Hammitt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 198,295 Americans. It ranked 17,951st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hammitt?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Hammitt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hammitt getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,536 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,557 in 2010, up 1.4%.