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The surname Ohman

A Swedish surname, carried by 1,913 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O550

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ohman is more common than 90.6% of them.

Origin

Swedish origin

Borrowed from Swedish Öhman.

One of 133 Swedish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,913 people named Ohman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,393 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,876.

#15,328
rank among US surnames
1,913
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+2%
change since 2000 (was #14,563)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,322Catano1,915161,225
#15,325Irick1,914161,309
#15,328Goudeau1,913161,393

Who is named Ohman

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

95% of people named Ohman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
  • Two or more races 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ohman

Ohman has the Soundex code O550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O550.

Other Swedish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ohman come from?
Borrowed from Swedish Öhman.
How common is the surname Ohman?
1,913 people in the United States had the surname Ohman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,393 Americans. It ranked 15,328th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ohman?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Ohman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ohman getting more or less common?
More common. 1,876 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,913 in 2010, up 2.0%.