The surname Mimms
A surname, carried by 1,740 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex M520
Origin
Variant of Mims.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,740 people named Mimms in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,777.
#16,509
rank among US surnames
1,740
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
-2.1%
change since 2000 (was #15,207)
Who is named Mimms
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
50% of people named Mimms identified as Black (not Hispanic), 42% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 50%
- White (not Hispanic) 42%
- Two or more races 4.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Mimms
Mimms has the Soundex code M520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M520.
Questions
- Where does the surname Mimms come from?
- Variant of Mims.
- How common is the surname Mimms?
- 1,740 people in the United States had the surname Mimms in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. It ranked 16,509th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Mimms?
- In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Mimms identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 42% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Mimms getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,777 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,740 in 2010, down 2.1%.