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The KANIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 353 54643 0 1
United States (1880 census) 12 85441 0 0
Change since 1880 +341 +30798 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 31 37508 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KANIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 45 23903 0.000 4
Minnesota 28 24262 0.001 6
New York 26 58660 0.000 1
New Jersey 24 36396 0.000 3
Florida 22 57631 0.000 1
Top States for KANIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 19 19516 0.001 6
Rhode Island 6 18369 0.001 6
Minnesota 28 24262 0.001 6
Ohio 45 23903 0.000 4
Washington DC 2 25022 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 KANIS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KANIS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KANIS in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KANIS by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KANIS

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

Ethnic distribution of KANIS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 334 94.62
Mixed Race 8 2.27
White (Hispanic) 5 1.42
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KANIS in historical publications

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

Similar names to KANIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KANIS.

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 KANIS

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