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The HOM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,015 6262 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 164 22295 0 3
Change since 1880 +4851 +16033 +N/A +16
Other Countries
Australia 4 176548 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,431 1374 0.007 72
New York 866 2181 0.005 46
New Jersey 221 4455 0.003 26
Arizona 148 4091 0.003 29
Massachusetts 129 6432 0.002 20
Top States for HOM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,431 1374 0.007 72
New York 866 2181 0.005 46
Arizona 148 4091 0.003 29
Hawaii 32 3537 0.003 26
New Jersey 221 4455 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of HOM

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HOM 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.

Ethnic distribution of HOM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 585 11.67
Mixed Race 224 4.47
White (Hispanic) 97 1.93
Black/African American 28 0.56
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.1
Asian/Pacific 4,076 81.28

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

Meaning of HOM in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HOM.

Similar names to HOM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOM.

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 HOM

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