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The KENNETH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 652 33090 0 2
United States (1880 census) 117 28300 0 2
Change since 1880 +535 -4790 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 30 37589 0 2
United Kingdom 310 12463 0.001 7
Top States for KENNETH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 62 13876 0.000 2
New York 53 12539 0.000 3
Ohio 48 9619 0.000 4
Florida 41 14879 0.000 3
Texas 39 14017 0.000 2
Top States for KENNETH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 4 10091 0.001 6
New Mexico 10 5611 0.001 5
Ohio 48 9619 0.000 4
Wyoming 2 14764 0.000 4
Minnesota 19 14387 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of KENNETH

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of KENNETH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 397 60.89
Black/African American 114 17.48
Native American/Alaskan 102 15.64
Mixed Race 14 2.15
White (Hispanic) 14 2.15
Asian/Pacific 11 1.69

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

Meaning of KENNETH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KENNETH.

Similar names to KENNETH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENNETH.

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 KENNETH

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