The KERSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,021	4087	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	1,351	4207	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+6670	+120	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	76	18053	0	5
United Kingdom	784	6359	0.002	17

Top States for KERSEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	948	2261	0.006	59
Georgia	906	1229	0.011	111
North Carolina	472	2484	0.006	59
California	414	6991	0.001	12
Indiana	392	2072	0.006	64
Top States for KERSEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	906	1229	0.011	111
Kentucky	349	1707	0.009	86
Arkansas	230	1645	0.009	86
West Virginia	130	2009	0.007	72
Delaware	56	2606	0.007	71

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

Classification and Origin of KERSEY

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 KERSEY 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 KERSEY 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 KERSEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	936	11.67
White (Hispanic)	114	1.42
Mixed Race	106	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	54	0.67
Asian/Pacific	34	0.42
White (Caucasian)	6,777	84.49

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

Similar names to KERSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERSEY.

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.