Hamill

5,315 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hamill in the 2020 census, making it the 6,177th most common in the country. That is about one person in 56,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,315
Rank: 6,177th
How common: 1 in 56,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Of multiple origins, but chiefly a reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hÁdhmaill (“descendant of Ádhmall”), a nickname from ádhmall (“active”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hamill

Mark Hamill (born 1951)American actor
Dorothy Hamill (born 1956)American figure skater
Matt Hamill (born 1976)American martial artist
Pete Hamill (1935–2020)American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator
Tommy Hamill (1950–1996)Northern Irish footballer

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

Surnames like Hamill

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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.