The KECK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,001	3023	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	2,672	2286	0.005	53
Change since 1880	+8329	-737	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	98	14495	0.001	6
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KECK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,012	1361	0.008	82
California	800	3646	0.002	24
Ohio	758	1753	0.007	67
Tennessee	755	1135	0.013	133
Illinois	637	1966	0.005	51
Top States for KECK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	755	1135	0.013	133
Arkansas	259	1344	0.010	97
Oklahoma	333	1390	0.010	97
Indiana	510	1416	0.008	84
Pennsylvania	1,012	1361	0.008	82

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of KECK

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 KECK 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 KECK 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 KECK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	152	1.38
Mixed Race	123	1.12
Black/African American	79	0.72
Native American/Alaskan	51	0.46
Asian/Pacific	48	0.44
White (Caucasian)	10,548	95.88

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

Similar names to KECK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KECK.

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.