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The KANAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 538 38644 0 2
United States (1880 census) 87 34373 0 2
Change since 1880 +451 -4271 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 22 48214 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KANAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 87 13061 0.001 9
California 61 32625 0.000 2
Illinois 47 25094 0.000 4
Massachusetts 34 19919 0.001 5
New York 33 48126 0.000 2
Top States for KANAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 87 13061 0.001 9
New Hampshire 8 15930 0.001 6
Alaska 4 21868 0.001 6
Massachusetts 34 19919 0.001 5
Colorado 20 22852 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of KANAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KANAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of KANAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 396 73.61
Mixed Race 90 16.73
White (Hispanic) 26 4.83
Asian/Pacific 22 4.09
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

KANAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KANAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KANAN.

Similar names to KANAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KANAN.

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 KANAN

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