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The HARMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,468 2459 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 1,754 3353 0.004 35
Change since 1880 +11714 +894 +0.001 +15
Other Countries
Australia 331 4761 0.002 20
United Kingdom 309 12502 0.001 7
Top States for HARMS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 1,563 754 0.013 126
Iowa 1,172 196 0.040 401
California 1,056 2953 0.003 31
Nebraska 769 149 0.045 449
Minnesota 739 615 0.015 150
Top States for HARMS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 769 149 0.045 449
Iowa 1,172 196 0.040 401
South Dakota 272 207 0.036 360
Minnesota 739 615 0.015 150
Kansas 403 670 0.015 150

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

Classification and Origin of HARMS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HARMS 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 HARMS 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 HARMS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 185 1.37
Mixed Race 144 1.07
Black/African American 121 0.9
Asian/Pacific 57 0.42
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.3
White (Caucasian) 12,923 95.95

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

Meaning of HARMS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HARMS.

Similar names to HARMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARMS.

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 HARMS

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