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The surname Homes

A surname, carried by 1,364 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H520

Homes: #19,747 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Homes #19,747, 1,364 people Homes: #19,747 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Homes #19,747, 1,364 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Homes is more common than 87.8% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,364 people named Homes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,353 Americans. That is down 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,518.

#19,747
rank among US surnames
1,364
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-10.1%
change since 2000 (was #17,203)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,747Bohne1,364226,353
#19,755Wertman1,363226,519

Who is named Homes

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

52% of people named Homes identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 52%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Homes

Homes has the Soundex code H520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H520.

Questions

How common is the surname Homes?
1,364 people in the United States had the surname Homes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,353 Americans. It ranked 19,747th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Homes?
In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Homes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Homes getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,518 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,364 in 2010, down 10%.