The surname Mumm
A surname, carried by 1,958 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex M500
Origin
* From the personal name Mummo, ultimately from a Germanic name corresponding to *mundō (“protection”) + *mōdaz (“courage”). * As a Swabian/Alemannic German surname, from the verb mummen (“to mumble”). Both senses are comparable to Mumme, a spelling variant.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,958 people named Mumm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 157,684 Americans. That is down 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,133.
Who is named Mumm
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Mumm identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 0.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Mumm has the Soundex code M500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M500.
Questions
- Where does the surname Mumm come from?
- * From the personal name Mummo, ultimately from a Germanic name corresponding to *mundō (“protection”) + *mōdaz (“courage”). * As a Swabian/Alemannic German surname, from the verb mummen (“to mumble”). Both senses are comparable to Mumme, a spelling variant.
- How common is the surname Mumm?
- 1,958 people in the United States had the surname Mumm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 157,684 Americans. It ranked 15,066th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Mumm?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mumm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Mumm getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,133 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,958 in 2010, down 8.2%.