The HYAMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	819	27669	0	3
United States (1880 census)	262	15782	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+557	-11887	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	123	11837	0.001	8
United Kingdom	784	6351	0.002	17

Top States for HYAMS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	109	20576	0.000	3
New York	97	18448	0.001	5
Florida	56	27347	0.000	4
Oklahoma	55	7097	0.002	16
New Jersey	53	17599	0.001	6
Top States for HYAMS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	55	7097	0.002	16
Kentucky	46	7512	0.001	11
Louisiana	39	10767	0.001	9
Nevada	16	13940	0.001	8
Alaska	4	21738	0.001	6

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

Classification and Origin of HYAMS

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HYAMS 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 HYAMS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	764	93.28
Black/African American	26	3.17
White (Hispanic)	18	2.2
Mixed Race	6	0.73
Asian/Pacific	5	0.61
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to HYAMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HYAMS.

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.