The HALLAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,047	9798	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	617	8151	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+2430	-1647	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	1,302	1262	0.008	80
United Kingdom	7,407	831	0.016	161

Top States for HALLAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	287	9600	0.001	8
Illinois	253	5407	0.002	20
Pennsylvania	208	7569	0.002	17
Florida	207	9420	0.001	13
Texas	176	10373	0.001	8
Top States for HALLAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	44	1454	0.009	89
Rhode Island	75	2283	0.007	72
Utah	73	3841	0.003	33
Idaho	30	6305	0.002	23
Illinois	253	5407	0.002	20

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HALLAM

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 HALLAM 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 HALLAM 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 HALLAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	78	2.56
Mixed Race	44	1.44
Asian/Pacific	21	0.69
Native American/Alaskan	18	0.59
Black/African American	16	0.53
White (Caucasian)	2,870	94.19

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

Meaning of HALLAM in historical publications

From Hall, Welsh, salt, and ham, a house or village, from its manufacture in that place, or being situated near the salt water. It may be derived from Hal or Hayle, a moor, and ham,--the house on the moor. Halham, the house on the hill, from Hal, Cornish British, a hill.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

HALLAM. There are parishes so called in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, and that part of the West Riding of the latter county which contains the parishes of Shcflield and Ecclesfield is known as Hallamshire.

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 HALLAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALLAM.

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.