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

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 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.

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.