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The KINGSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,395 5035 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,446 3957 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +4949 -1078 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 1,798 905 0.011 110
United Kingdom 4,073 1543 0.009 89
Top States for KINGSTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 691 2813 0.004 36
California 593 4907 0.002 18
Texas 465 4614 0.002 22
Florida 402 5021 0.003 25
Pennsylvania 357 4317 0.003 29
Top States for KINGSTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 201 1528 0.009 90
New Hampshire 75 2521 0.006 61
Vermont 36 2816 0.006 59
Montana 50 2495 0.006 55
Maine 69 2991 0.005 54

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

Classification and Origin of KINGSTON

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 KINGSTON 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 KINGSTON 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 KINGSTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 538 8.41
White (Hispanic) 112 1.75
Mixed Race 72 1.13
Asian/Pacific 43 0.67
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.44
White (Caucasian) 5,602 87.6

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

Meaning of KINGSTON in historical publications

(origin: Local) The name of several towns in England--the king's town.

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


KINGSTON. Twenty-four towns, parishes, &c., of this nfime are given in the English Gazetteer.

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 KINGSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KINGSTON.

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 KINGSTON

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