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The KEATS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 634 33876 0 2
United States (1880 census) 133 25859 0 3
Change since 1880 +501 -8017 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 321 4904 0.002 20
United Kingdom 623 7568 0.001 14
Top States for KEATS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 75 24050 0.000 2
New York 63 22923 0.000 3
New Jersey 61 12806 0.001 7
Maryland 50 8953 0.001 9
Massachusetts 43 14005 0.001 7
Top States for KEATS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 6 10257 0.001 12
Maryland 50 8953 0.001 9
Delaware 6 15543 0.001 8
New Jersey 61 12806 0.001 7
Massachusetts 43 14005 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of KEATS

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 KEATS 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 KEATS 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 KEATS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 574 90.54
Black/African American 32 5.05
Native American/Alaskan 13 2.05
White (Hispanic) 8 1.26
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of KEATS in historical publications

KEATE. KEATS. An old Cornish family bore the former name, as also did the extinct baronets of the Hoo in Hertfordshire. Hals, the Cornish topographer, gives this veiy uncomplimentarj derivation of the name: '•'■ Keate, ceate, in British is fallacy, cheat, or delusion."

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 KEATS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEATS.

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 KEATS

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