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

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 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.

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.