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The KEAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 485 42134 0 2
United States (1880 census) 178 21024 0 4
Change since 1880 +307 -21110 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 74 18450 0 5
United Kingdom 504 8808 0.001 11
Top States for KEAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 69 21496 0.000 3
Louisiana 57 8738 0.001 13
Indiana 47 14760 0.001 8
Kentucky 44 8187 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 38 37489 0.000 3
Top States for KEAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 57 8738 0.001 13
Kansas 34 9882 0.001 13
Kentucky 44 8187 0.001 11
Indiana 47 14760 0.001 8
North Dakota 4 20349 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 KEAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KEAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KEAL in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KEAL by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KEAL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 329 67.84
Black/African American 112 23.09
White (Hispanic) 22 4.54
Asian/Pacific 14 2.89
Mixed Race 8 1.65
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of KEAL in historical publications

KEAL. East and West Keele, parishes in Lincolnshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to KEAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEAL.

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 KEAL

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