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The surname Kumm

A surname, carried by 1,115 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K500

Kumm: #22,944 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kumm #22,944, 1,115 people Kumm: #22,944 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kumm #22,944, 1,115 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kumm is more common than 85.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,115 people named Kumm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 276,902 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,065.

#22,944
rank among US surnames
1,115
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+4.7%
change since 2000 (was #22,538)

Who is named Kumm

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

96% of people named Kumm identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
  • Two or more races 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kumm

Kumm has the Soundex code K500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K500.

Questions

How common is the surname Kumm?
1,115 people in the United States had the surname Kumm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,902 Americans. It ranked 22,944th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kumm?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kumm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kumm getting more or less common?
More common. 1,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,115 in 2010, up 4.7%.