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The KALA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 467 43546 0 2
United States (1880 census) 16 79128 0 0
Change since 1880 +451 +35582 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 20 51884 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KALA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 78 39345 0.000 2
Hawaii 50 3151 0.004 41
New York 35 68369 0.000 2
Texas 35 44507 0.000 2
Michigan 30 53179 0.000 3
Top States for KALA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 50 3151 0.004 41
Rhode Island 8 21158 0.001 8
Washington DC 3 24972 0.001 5
Connecticut 13 47646 0.000 4
Arizona 17 42123 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of KALA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KALA surname.

Ethnic distribution of KALA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 231 49.46
White (Caucasian) 150 32.12
Mixed Race 51 10.92
White (Hispanic) 16 3.43
Black/African American 14 3
Native American/Alaskan 5 1.07

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

KALA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KALA in historical publications

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

Similar names to KALA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KALA.

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 KALA

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