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The surname Hamre

A surname, carried by 1,137 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H560

Hamre: #22,592 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hamre #22,592, 1,137 people Hamre: #22,592 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hamre #22,592, 1,137 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hamre is more common than 86.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,137 people named Hamre in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 271,544 Americans. That is up 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,047.

#22,592
rank among US surnames
1,137
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+8.6%
change since 2000 (was #22,833)

Who is named Hamre

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

96% of people named Hamre identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • Two or more races 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hamre

Hamre has the Soundex code H560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H560.

Questions

How common is the surname Hamre?
1,137 people in the United States had the surname Hamre in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 271,544 Americans. It ranked 22,592nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hamre?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hamre identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hamre getting more or less common?
More common. 1,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,137 in 2010, up 8.6%.