Hamel

10,157 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hamel in the 2020 census, making it the 3,438th most common in the country. That is about one person in 29,400.

By the numbers

People: 10,157
Rank: 3,438th
How common: 1 in 29,400
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin French, from Old French

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hamel

Jacques Hamel (1930–2016)French Catholic Priest, Martyr and Servant of God
Veronica Hamel (born 1943)American actress
René Hamel (1902–1992)French cyclist
Georg Hamel (1877–1954)German mathematician
Eddy Hamel (1902–1943)American-Dutch association football player
Hendrick Hamel (1630–1692)Dutch sailor
Gary Hamel (born 1954)American management expert
Werner Hamel (1911–1987)field hockey player

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

Surnames like Hamel

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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.