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    The surname Harms

    A surname, carried by 14,377 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H652

    Harms: #2,518 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Harms #2,518, 14,377 people Harms: #2,518 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Harms #2,518, 14,377 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Harms is more common than 98.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 14,377 people named Harms in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 21,475 Americans. That is up 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,468.

    #2,518
    rank among US surnames
    14,377
    people in 2010
    4.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.7%
    change since 2000 (was #2,459)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,509Reardon14,43521,389
    #2,510Coughlin14,43421,390
    #2,511Vick14,42121,409
    #2,512Jacques14,41721,415
    #2,513Heim14,41421,420
    #2,514Staton14,41321,421
    #2,515Garay14,39321,451

    Who is named Harms

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

    92% of people named Harms identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Harms

    Harms has the Soundex code H652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H652.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Harms?
    14,377 people in the United States had the surname Harms in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 21,475 Americans. It ranked 2,518th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Harms?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Harms identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Harms getting more or less common?
    More common. 13,468 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 14,377 in 2010, up 6.7%.