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The KENNARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,666 6674 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,482 3882 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +3184 -2792 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 252 6112 0.002 15
United Kingdom 1,717 3350 0.004 37
Top States for KENNARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 549 4082 0.003 26
Ohio 478 2993 0.004 42
California 402 6990 0.001 12
Florida 268 7375 0.002 17
Michigan 228 5428 0.002 23
Top States for KENNARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 85 1720 0.011 108
Maine 84 2580 0.007 66
Utah 104 2813 0.005 47
Ohio 478 2993 0.004 42
New Hampshire 40 4286 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of KENNARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 74 1.59
Mixed Race 60 1.29
Asian/Pacific 24 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.3
White (Caucasian) 3,399 72.85
Black/African American 1,095 23.47

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

Meaning of KENNARD in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) From Ceannard, a chief, a chieftain, a leader, a commander-in-chief, from Ceann, head, chief, and Ard, high, lofty.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


KENNARD. The same as Kenward, which is usually so pronounced.

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 KENNARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENNARD.

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 KENNARD

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