The KELM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,588	11227	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	282	14952	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+2306	+3725	0	+4
Other Countries
Australia	69	19697	0	4
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KELM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	355	4843	0.002	17
Minnesota	311	1507	0.006	63
Wisconsin	302	1847	0.006	56
Illinois	192	5553	0.002	15
Pennsylvania	163	7571	0.001	13
Top States for KELM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	311	1507	0.006	63
Wisconsin	302	1847	0.006	56
Montana	27	4046	0.003	30
Alaska	16	4755	0.003	26
Oregon	75	4794	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of KELM

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

Ethnic distribution of KELM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	39	1.51
Mixed Race	13	0.5
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.39
Asian/Pacific	7	0.27
Black/African American	7	0.27
White (Caucasian)	2,512	97.06

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

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

Similar names to KELM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KELM.

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.