The KENNY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,811	1972	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	5,439	1111	0.011	109
Change since 1880	+11372	-861	-0.005	-47
Other Countries
Australia	3,524	421	0.022	216
United Kingdom	9,986	600	0.022	217

Top States for KENNY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,225	759	0.012	117
New Jersey	1,451	527	0.017	172
California	1,272	2461	0.004	38
Florida	1,153	1772	0.007	72
Illinois	1,054	1173	0.008	85
Top States for KENNY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	1,451	527	0.017	172
Vermont	97	1101	0.016	159
New Hampshire	163	1188	0.013	132
Connecticut	438	913	0.013	129
New York	2,225	759	0.012	117

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

Classification and Origin of KENNY

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 KENNY 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 KENNY 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 KENNY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	925	5.5
White (Hispanic)	262	1.56
Mixed Race	185	1.1
Asian/Pacific	119	0.71
Native American/Alaskan	103	0.61
White (Caucasian)	15,217	90.52

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

Similar names to KENNY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENNY.

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.