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The KA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 568 36999 0 2
United States (1880 census) 13 83392 0 0
Change since 1880 +555 +46393 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 16 61354 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 115 25668 0.000 3
New York 115 20924 0.001 6
North Carolina 50 13743 0.001 6
Texas 42 36144 0.000 2
Hawaii 26 5699 0.002 21
Top States for KA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 26 5699 0.002 21
Rhode Island 8 21147 0.001 8
Delaware 5 31843 0.001 6
North Carolina 50 13743 0.001 6
New York 115 20924 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of KA

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KA 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.

Ethnic distribution of KA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 369 64.96
Black/African American 83 14.61
White (Caucasian) 79 13.91
Mixed Race 32 5.63
White (Hispanic) 5 0.88
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of KA in historical publications

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

Similar names to KA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KA.

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.