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The KENNA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,737 15473 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 672 7610 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1065 -7863 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 534 3016 0.003 33
United Kingdom 690 6991 0.002 15
Top States for KENNA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 309 6759 0.002 16
Florida 169 11489 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 157 10249 0.001 13
California 123 20410 0.000 4
New Jersey 93 11277 0.001 11
Top States for KENNA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 12 9283 0.002 19
New York 309 6759 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 157 10249 0.001 13
New Mexico 22 7223 0.001 12
Rhode Island 12 12163 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of KENNA

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 KENNA 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 KENNA 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 KENNA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 45 2.59
Mixed Race 34 1.96
Asian/Pacific 10 0.58
White (Caucasian) 1,634 94.07
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 KENNA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of KENNA in historical publications

KENNA. Known corruptions of Mackinnon in Ulster.

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 KENNA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENNA.

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 KENNA

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