Last Name HOLM

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Meaning	Local: At the holm, from residence upon a holm, an islet inm or a flat land besides a river. The world as a place name is common all over England. 'Holm,' place besydone a water. The word is sometimes found spelt 'home' or 'holms.' 'Homes,' probably 'holm,' which signified originally river-islands.

Origin	English, Jewish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, Estonian, Falkland, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	2,578 (2000 US census)	2,587 (1990 US census)

Count	12,894 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.99%, or 12377 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.7%, or 90 total occurrences, as black,
0.5%, or 64 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.48%, or 62 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.08%, or 139 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.25%, or 161 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte