Elmore

At the 2020 census, 24,664 Americans bore the surname Elmore — 1,403rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,100.

By the numbers

People: 24,664
Rank: 1,403rd
How common: 1 in 12,100
Per 100,000: 8.3

Where the name comes from

English surname, from Middle English Ailmer, from Old English Æþelmær.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Elmore described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.6%
Black, not Hispanic 18.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Elmore

Amanda Elmore (born 1991)American rower

People named Elmore with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Elmore

Elmer

Also a first name

Elmore has been given to 3,967 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.