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The KENSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 291 64008 0 1
United States (1880 census) 201 19267 0 4
Change since 1880 +90 -44741 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 55 23726 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KENSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 73 20094 0.001 6
Louisiana 37 11704 0.001 8
Illinois 35 38029 0.000 3
California 32 64800 0.000 1
Ohio 13 74534 0.000 1
Top States for KENSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 37 11704 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 73 20094 0.001 6
New Hampshire 6 24773 0.000 5
Illinois 35 38029 0.000 3
Delaware 2 42835 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of KENSEY

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

Ethnic distribution of KENSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 149 51.2
White (Caucasian) 126 43.3
White (Hispanic) 9 3.09
Mixed Race 6 2.06
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KENSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to KENSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENSEY.

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 KENSEY

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