The KAHL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,213	6067	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	1,018	5378	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+4195	-689	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	219	6949	0.001	13
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KAHL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	549	1079	0.010	102
Maryland	376	1585	0.007	71
Pennsylvania	347	4197	0.003	28
California	319	8078	0.001	9
Illinois	284	4407	0.002	23
Top States for KAHL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	549	1079	0.010	102
North Dakota	55	1645	0.009	86
Maryland	376	1585	0.007	71
Iowa	166	2219	0.006	57
Oregon	160	2608	0.005	47

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

Classification and Origin of KAHL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	65	1.25
Mixed Race	60	1.15
Asian/Pacific	25	0.48
Black/African American	17	0.33
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.23
White (Caucasian)	5,034	96.57

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

Similar names to KAHL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KAHL.

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.