Palm

At the 2020 census, 6,842 Americans bore the surname Palm — 4,975th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 43,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,842
Rank: 4,975th
How common: 1 in 43,700
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

From balme, related to palm (“palm tree”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.9%
Black, not Hispanic 8.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Palm

Anna Palm de Rosa (1859–1924)Swedish artist
August Palm (1849–1922)Swedish politician
Torsten Palm (born 1947)Swedish racing driver
Etta Palm (1743–1799)Dutch feminist and spy
Viking Palm (1923–2009)Olympic wrestler
Johann Philipp Palm (1766–1806)executed German bookseller

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

Surnames like Palm

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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.