How common is the surname Quam?

2,568 people in the United States had the surname Quam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 120,228 Americans. It ranked 12,132nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Quam?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Quam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Quam getting more or less common?

More common. 2,431 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,568 in 2010, up 5.6%.

The surname Quam

A surname, carried by 2,568 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex Q500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Quam is more common than 92.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,568 people named Quam in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 120,228 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,431.

#12,132

rank among US surnames

2,568

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+5.6%

change since 2000 (was #11,803)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,124	Naber	2,571	120,088
#12,127	Nath	2,570	120,134
#12,130	Hammers	2,569	120,181
#12,132	Sugg	2,568	120,228
#12,136	Morelos	2,567	120,275
#12,140	Tuten	2,566	120,322

Who is named Quam

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

87% of people named Quam identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 87%
American Indian and Alaska Native 9.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Quam

Quan

Quam has the Soundex code Q500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q500.

Questions

How common is the surname Quam?: 2,568 people in the United States had the surname Quam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 120,228 Americans. It ranked 12,132nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Quam?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Quam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Quam getting more or less common?: More common. 2,431 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,568 in 2010, up 5.6%.