The KANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	48,527	636	0.018	180
United States (1880 census)	18,445	289	0.037	369
Change since 1880	+30082	-347	-0.019	-189
Other Countries
Australia	2,253	711	0.014	138
United Kingdom	11,674	509	0.025	254

Top States for KANE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	5,032	184	0.041	410
New York	5,007	283	0.026	264
California	3,653	840	0.011	108
Florida	3,328	545	0.021	208
Massachusetts	3,206	197	0.050	505
Top States for KANE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	396	252	0.051	505
Massachusetts	3,206	197	0.050	505
Maine	609	346	0.048	478
Pennsylvania	5,032	184	0.041	410
Rhode Island	398	248	0.038	380

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

Classification and Origin of KANE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	786	1.62
Asian/Pacific	728	1.5
Mixed Race	641	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	262	0.54
White (Caucasian)	44,470	91.64
Black/African American	1,640	3.38

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

Similar names to KANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KANE.

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.