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    The surname Primm

    A surname, carried by 3,153 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P650

    Primm: #10,224 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Primm #10,224, 3,153 people Primm: #10,224 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Primm #10,224, 3,153 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Primm is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,153 people named Primm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,921 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,023.

    #10,224
    rank among US surnames
    3,153
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #9,863)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,215Shue3,15597,859
    #10,219Greeson3,15497,890
    #10,224Michelson3,15397,921
    #10,228Trammel3,15297,952
    #10,232Lukens3,15197,983
    #10,233Edington3,15098,014

    Who is named Primm

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

    69% of people named Primm identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Primm

    Primm has the Soundex code P650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P650.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Primm?
    3,153 people in the United States had the surname Primm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,921 Americans. It ranked 10,224th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Primm?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Primm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Primm getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,023 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,153 in 2010, up 4.3%.