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The KANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 48,527 636 0.018 180
United States (1880 census) 18,445 289 0.037 369
Change since 1880 +30082 -347 -0.019 -189
Other Countries
Australia 2,253 711 0.014 138
United Kingdom 11,674 509 0.025 254
Top States for KANE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 5,032 184 0.041 410
New York 5,007 283 0.026 264
California 3,653 840 0.011 108
Florida 3,328 545 0.021 208
Massachusetts 3,206 197 0.050 505
Top States for KANE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 396 252 0.051 505
Massachusetts 3,206 197 0.050 505
Maine 609 346 0.048 478
Pennsylvania 5,032 184 0.041 410
Rhode Island 398 248 0.038 380

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

Classification and Origin of KANE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KANE 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 KANE 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 KANE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 786 1.62
Asian/Pacific 728 1.5
Mixed Race 641 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 262 0.54
White (Caucasian) 44,470 91.64
Black/African American 1,640 3.38

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

Meaning of KANE in historical publications

KANE. See O'Cahan.

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 KANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KANE.

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 KANE

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