How common is the surname Storms?

5,575 people in the United States had the surname Storms in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,380 Americans. It ranked 6,147th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Storms?

Storms is /stɔɹmz/, one syllable.

Is the surname Storms getting more or less common?

More common. 5,395 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,575 in 2010, up 3.3%.

The surname Storms

A Dutch surname, carried by 5,575 people in the United States.

Pronounced /stɔɹmz/ 1 syllable Soundex S365

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Storms is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from Dutch and German Storms.

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,575 people named Storms in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 55,380 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,395.

#6,147

rank among US surnames

5,575

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #5,876)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,141	Hanrahan	5,578	55,351
#6,143	Karp	5,577	55,361
#6,146	Bromley	5,576	55,370
#6,147	Storms	5,575	55,380
#6,148	Lafrance	5,574	55,390

Who is named Storms

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

90% of people named Storms identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Storms

Storms has the Soundex code S365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S365.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Storms come from?: Borrowed from Dutch and German Storms.
How common is the surname Storms?: 5,575 people in the United States had the surname Storms in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,380 Americans. It ranked 6,147th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Storms?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Storms identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Storms?: Storms is /stɔɹmz/, one syllable.
Is the surname Storms getting more or less common?: More common. 5,395 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,575 in 2010, up 3.3%.