The KEARNS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,234	2330	0.005	53
United States (1880 census)	3,502	1745	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+10732	-585	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	1,026	1614	0.006	63
United Kingdom	3,458	1809	0.008	75

Top States for KEARNS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,120	1223	0.009	91
New York	1,111	1590	0.006	59
California	1,099	2761	0.003	32
North Carolina	909	1320	0.011	113
Ohio	897	1460	0.008	79
Top States for KEARNS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	211	1229	0.012	117
New Hampshire	141	1348	0.011	114
North Carolina	909	1320	0.011	113
Maine	133	1710	0.010	104
Rhode Island	108	1403	0.010	103

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

Classification and Origin of KEARNS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	364	2.56
White (Hispanic)	186	1.31
Mixed Race	177	1.24
Asian/Pacific	91	0.64
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.28
White (Caucasian)	13,376	93.97

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

Similar names to KEARNS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEARNS.

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.