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The KENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 42,597 733 0.016 158
United States (1880 census) 11,720 505 0.023 234
Change since 1880 +30877 -228 -0.007 -76
Other Countries
Australia 4,471 328 0.027 274
United Kingdom 16,029 357 0.035 349
Top States for KENT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,687 845 0.011 109
Florida 3,323 565 0.021 208
Texas 2,555 993 0.012 123
New York 2,513 652 0.013 132
Georgia 2,022 502 0.025 247
Top States for KENT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 367 403 0.028 284
Alabama 1,224 608 0.028 275
Vermont 166 562 0.027 273
Oregon 881 396 0.026 257
Georgia 2,022 502 0.025 247

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

Classification and Origin of KENT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 630 1.48
White (Hispanic) 584 1.37
Asian/Pacific 264 0.62
Native American/Alaskan 251 0.59
White (Caucasian) 36,659 86.06
Black/African American 4,209 9.88

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

Meaning of KENT in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the County Kent, in England. Camden derives this from canton, a corner, because England in this place stretches itself into a corner to the north-east. Cant, in Welsh, signifies, round, circular, which is probably the true signification.

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


KENT. See Counties, Names of.

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 KENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENT.

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 KENT

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