Hamlin

Hamlin is the 2,242nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,805 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,900.

By the numbers

People: 15,805
Rank: 2,242nd
How common: 1 in 18,900
Per 100,000: 5.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

From the Anglo-Norman personal name Hamlin, a double diminutive of Old French Haimon.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.4%
Black, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin (1809–1891)Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Harry Hamlin (born 1951)American actor
Erin Hamlin (born 1986)American luger
Denny Hamlin (born 1980)American racing driver and team owner
Catherine Hamlin (1924–2020)Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist
Charles Sumner Hamlin (1861–1938)American politician

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

Surnames like Hamlin

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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.