Hume

At the 2020 census, 6,311 Americans bore the surname Hume — 5,330th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,400.

By the numbers

People: 6,311
Rank: 5,330th
How common: 1 in 47,400
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hume

David Hume (1711–1776)Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
John Hume (1937–2020)Irish politician from Northern Ireland
Allan Hume (1829–1912)British Ornithologist and Founder of the Indian National Congress
Basil Hume (1923–1999)British Roman-Catholic Benedictine monk and prelate, archbishop of Westminster, cardinal
Hamilton Hume (1797–1873)Australian explorer
Donald Hume (1915–2001)American rower
Iain Hume (born 1983)Canadian soccer player
Trai Hume (born 2002)Northern Irish footballer

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

Surnames like Hume

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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.