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The KAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,686 6651 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 2,152 2803 0.004 43
Change since 1880 +2534 -3848 -0.002 -26
Other Countries
Australia 479 3343 0.003 29
United Kingdom 556 8245 0.001 12
Top States for KAIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 406 6611 0.001 12
New York 319 5931 0.002 17
Michigan 304 3843 0.003 31
Pennsylvania 299 4968 0.002 24
Florida 283 6706 0.002 18
Top States for KAIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 159 2390 0.005 54
Montana 39 3211 0.004 43
Wyoming 19 3430 0.004 38
Michigan 304 3843 0.003 31
Washington 177 4094 0.003 30

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KAIN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KAIN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KAIN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KAIN by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KAIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KAIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KAIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KAIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 108 2.3
Mixed Race 85 1.81
Black/African American 84 1.79
Asian/Pacific 64 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.19
White (Caucasian) 4,336 92.53

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KAIN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of KAIN in historical publications

KAIN. The same as Kane. The town of Caen in Normandy was sometimes so written in English records.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to KAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KAIN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KAIN

The following words are slight variants of KAIN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.