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The HAMMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,947 1491 0.008 81
United States (1880 census) 4,464 1392 0.009 89
Change since 1880 +17483 -99 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 488 3295 0.003 30
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HAMMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,772 1835 0.005 52
Florida 1,258 1634 0.008 79
Ohio 1,256 1064 0.011 111
New York 1,210 1505 0.006 64
Illinois 1,172 1047 0.009 94
Top States for HAMMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 213 305 0.028 282
North Dakota 165 402 0.026 257
Minnesota 1,075 400 0.022 219
Idaho 225 737 0.017 174
Washington 978 697 0.017 166

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HAMMER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HAMMER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HAMMER in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HAMMER by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HAMMER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Norway

Language of origin: Norwegian

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HAMMER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HAMMER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HAMMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 351 1.6
Mixed Race 303 1.38
Native American/Alaskan 290 1.32
Black/African American 200 0.91
Asian/Pacific 112 0.51
White (Caucasian) 20,694 94.29

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HAMMER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HAMMER in historical publications

HAMMER. According to Grimm and Forstemann, Hammer or Hamer is " a name u

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HAMMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAMMER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HAMMER

The following words are slight variants of HAMMER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.