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The HOMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,009 5339 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 2,799 2179 0.006 56
Change since 1880 +3210 -3160 -0.004 -34
Other Countries
Australia 372 4272 0.002 23
United Kingdom 4,653 1346 0.01 101
Top States for HOMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 659 2113 0.005 54
California 474 5542 0.001 14
Texas 414 4742 0.002 20
Florida 394 4752 0.002 25
New York 387 4616 0.002 20
Top States for HOMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 219 1293 0.010 98
Delaware 58 2244 0.007 74
Idaho 90 1867 0.007 70
Pennsylvania 659 2113 0.005 54
Alaska 32 2504 0.005 51

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

Classification and Origin of HOMER

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 HOMER 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 HOMER 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 HOMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 472 7.85
Native American/Alaskan 257 4.28
Mixed Race 105 1.75
White (Hispanic) 83 1.38
Asian/Pacific 38 0.63
White (Caucasian) 5,054 84.11

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

Meaning of HOMER in historical publications

HOMER. A medieval personal name. A saint bearing it gave name to St. Omer in Picardy, from whence the founder of the family may have come to England — not necessarily, however, since Homertou, Homersham, Homersfield, &c., point distinctly to some Anglo-Saxon proprietor who rejoiced in this poetical designation. The first of the family on record, according to Mr. Dixon, is Thomas de Homere, 1338, who had lands in co. Dorset. A family of Homer have been settled in Staffordshire for centuries. Surnames, p. 37.

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 HOMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOMER.

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 HOMER

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