Hammond

At the 2020 census, 66,318 Americans bore the surname Hammond — 494th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,507.

By the numbers

People: 66,318
Rank: 494th
How common: 1 in 4,507
Per 100,000: 22.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

A patronymic surname from the Anglo-Norman given name Hamo, Hamon, from Germanic names beginning with a derivative of Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home”), such as descendants of *Haimarīks (“Henry”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.4%
Black, not Hispanic 15.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hammond

Philip Hammond (born 1955)British politician
Richard Hammond (born 1969)English motoring journalist and broadcaster
Aleqa Hammond (born 1965)fifth Prime Minister of Greenland
Albert Hammond (born 1944)Gibraltarian singer, songwriter, and record producer
Nicholas Hammond (born 1950)American actor
Laurens Hammond (1895–1973)American inventor
Albert Hammond, Jr. (born 1980)American rock musician
Darrell Hammond (born 1955)American actor and comedian

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

Surnames like Hammond

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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.