How common is the surname Sammon?

1,176 people in the United States had the surname Sammon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,539 Americans. It ranked 22,047th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sammon?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sammon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sammon getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,371 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,176 in 2010, down 14%.

The surname Sammon

A surname, carried by 1,176 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S550

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sammon is more common than 86.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,176 people named Sammon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 262,539 Americans. That is down 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,371.

#22,047

rank among US surnames

1,176

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-14.2%

change since 2000 (was #18,560)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#22,047	Whistler	1,176	262,539
#22,056	Hopf	1,175	262,762

Who is named Sammon

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

92% of people named Sammon identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sammon

Sammon has the Soundex code S550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S550.

Questions

How common is the surname Sammon?: 1,176 people in the United States had the surname Sammon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,539 Americans. It ranked 22,047th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sammon?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sammon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sammon getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,371 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,176 in 2010, down 14%.