Hamper
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic personal name Hambert, composed of either haim, heim ‘home’ or hagan ‘enclosure’, ‘protected place’ 4- berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hæmpɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hamper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 940K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
- NONorway1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 940K (inferred from the name graph)
354 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Germanic personal name Hambert, composed of either haim, heim ‘home’ or hagan ‘enclosure’, ‘protected place’ 4- berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hamper 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 354 | 1 in 940K | 380 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
354 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Hamper is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, occupational name for a maker or seller of goblets, from Old French hanapier.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from OFr hanapier, 'maker or seller of goblets'; first attested John le Hanaper 1236–41 StP (Lo).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Indonesian, a gift, especially in a hamper or something similar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmq-osw, hemp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- William Hamperb. 1776British antiquarian
- Genevieve Hamperb. 1888USAmerican actress (1888-1971)
- James Hamperb. 1955USMember of Maine State Senate
- Ben Hamperb. 1956USAmerican journalist
- W. HamperEnglish artist, active 1793-1795
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 380 | #57,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 354 | #57,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 352 | #54,766 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,009 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #71,497 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #127,795 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- 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 Hamper mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic personal name Hambert, composed of either haim, heim ‘home’ or hagan ‘enclosure’, ‘protected place’ 4- berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hamper?
- A machine transcription gives /hæmpɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hamper have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 354 people named Hamper, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hamper most common?
- Hamper is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 940 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hamper?
- In the United States, the national register counted 354 people named Hamper in 2010, about 1 in 940 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hamperThe 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, “Hamper”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.