The HAMEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,592	3129	0.004	39
United States (1880 census)	1,107	5024	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+9485	+1895	+0.002	+17
Other Countries
Australia	99	14334	0.001	6
United Kingdom	115	22527	0	3

Top States for HAMEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,435	544	0.023	226
Florida	819	2395	0.005	51
New Hampshire	785	140	0.064	635
California	749	3828	0.002	22
Michigan	655	1627	0.007	66
Top States for HAMEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	785	140	0.064	635
Maine	460	494	0.036	361
Vermont	163	555	0.027	268
Rhode Island	263	468	0.025	251
Massachusetts	1,435	544	0.023	226

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

Classification and Origin of HAMEL

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of HAMEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	181	1.71
White (Hispanic)	175	1.65
Black/African American	142	1.34
Native American/Alaskan	51	0.48
Asian/Pacific	44	0.42
White (Caucasian)	9,999	94.4

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

Similar names to HAMEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAMEL.

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.