Hom

At the 2020 census, 4,693 Americans bore the surname Hom — 6,897th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 63,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,693
Rank: 6,897th
How common: 1 in 63,700
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

From zhx-tai 譚.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 77.2%
White, not Hispanic 9.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 8.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Surnames like Hom

Homan
Homer

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.