The Homer surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,198 people carried this name — #5,610 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 47,600 people counted. That is up 3% from 6,009 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Homer surname
From Middle English [Term?], an occupational name for a helmet maker, or a variant of Holme.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Homer» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 82 people named Homer.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Maine-et-Loire.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Homer in American newspapers,
1879–1889.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 15,431,784 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Homer,
with a public archive behind them.
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Henry Homer 1753–1791 · classical scholar -
Arthur Homer d. 1806 · academic
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Arthur Homer d. 1806 · academic
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Edward Homer d. 1825
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Henry Homer the elder 1719–1791 · writer
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Sarah Chance 1747–1776
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Homer.
- Holweg 140 · U.S. census
- Holz 3,002 · U.S. census
- Holzer 3,911 · U.S. census
- Holzinger 865 · U.S. census
- Holzmann 455 · U.S. census
- Home 311 · U.S. census
- Homeyer 634 · U.S. census
- Hommel 1,235 · U.S. census
- Homs 178 · U.S. census
- Hon 2,424 · U.S. census
- Hong 31,670 · U.S. census
- Honig 1,801 · U.S. census
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