Hamer

Hamer is the 5,425th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,210 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 48,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,210
Rank: 5,425th
How common: 1 in 48,100
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the place in Lancashire, from Old English hamor (“cliff”), apparently a rare use instead of the sense for "hammer" (compare Old Norse hamarr.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.6%
Black, not Hispanic 19.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)American civil rights activist
Bent Hamer (born 1956)Norwegian film director, screenwriter and film producer
Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935–2017)disbarred German physician
Ben Hamer (born 1987)English footballer
Robert Hamer (1911–1963)British film director and screenwriter
Alain Hamer (born 1965)Luxembourgian football referee
Gustavo Hamer (born 1997)association football player
Frank Hamer (1884–1955)(1884-1955) American lawman

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

Surnames like Hamer

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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.