Hammons
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a different form of Hammonds
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæmənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hammons is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 30K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 38K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 61K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a different form of Hammonds
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hammons counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Hammons | 3 |
| US United States | 11,273 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Hammons | 363 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Hammons | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Hammons | 45 |
| CA Canada | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Hammons | 34 |
| IE Ireland | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Hammons | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Hammons | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hammons is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
apparently a variant of Hammonds.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Hammonsb. 1787USAmerican politician (1787-1836)
- David Hammonsb. 1808USAmerican politician (1808-1888)
- E. W. Hammonsb. 1882USAmerican film producer (1882–1962)
- Foy Hammonsb. 1894USAmerican football player and coach
- Sherman Hammonsb. 1903(1903-1988)
- David Hammonsb. 1943USAmerican painter and performance artist (born 1943)
- Debbie Hammonsb. 1950USAmerican politician
- Chris Hammonsb. 1978USAmerican reality television contestant, lawyer and former college football player
- A. J. Hammonsb. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Sophia Hammonsb. 2006USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,352 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hammons mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a different form of Hammonds Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hammons?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæmənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hammons have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Hammons in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hammons.
- How common is the name Hammons?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,273 people named Hammons in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hammonsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hammons”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.