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The HAMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,526 4942 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 2,068 2899 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +4458 -2043 -0.002 -17
Other Countries
Australia 657 2464 0.004 40
United Kingdom 5,898 1067 0.013 128
Top States for HAMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 540 5373 0.002 16
Illinois 435 3028 0.004 35
Pennsylvania 435 3584 0.004 35
Florida 311 6466 0.002 19
New York 305 6530 0.002 16
Top States for HAMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 196 1951 0.007 67
South Carolina 214 2788 0.005 53
South Dakota 39 3289 0.005 52
Minnesota 230 2893 0.005 47
Tennessee 259 3080 0.005 46

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

Classification and Origin of HAMER

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 HAMER 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 HAMER 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 HAMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 89 1.36
White (Hispanic) 87 1.33
Asian/Pacific 27 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.35
White (Caucasian) 5,048 77.35
Black/African American 1,252 19.18

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

Meaning of HAMER in historical publications

HAMER. An O. Germ, personal name of the A'III. cent, whence probably also Hammer.

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 HAMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAMER.

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 HAMER

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