Hammer

Hammer is the 1,684th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,909 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,300.

By the numbers

People: 20,909
Rank: 1,684th
How common: 1 in 14,300
Per 100,000: 7.0

Where the name comes from

Shortened, with a pun on hammer.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Hammer

Armie Hammer (born 1986)American actor
MC Hammer (born 1962)American rapper
Jan Hammer (born 1948)Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer
Armand Hammer (1898–1990)American businessman
Barbara Hammer (1939–2019)American filmmaker
Sarah Hammer (born 1983)American racing cyclist
Bernhard Hammer (1822–1907)member of the Swiss Federal Council
Jon Ludvig Hammer (born 1990)Norwegian chess grandmaster

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

Surnames like Hammer

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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.