The KEARNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	19,938	1647	0.007	74
United States (1880 census)	5,152	1184	0.01	103
Change since 1880	+14786	-463	-0.003	-29
Other Countries
Australia	2,197	725	0.013	134
United Kingdom	5,570	1120	0.012	121

Top States for KEARNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,921	927	0.010	101
Pennsylvania	1,624	819	0.013	132
North Carolina	1,604	740	0.020	199
California	1,492	2162	0.004	44
New Jersey	1,213	704	0.014	144
Top States for KEARNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	124	490	0.022	217
North Carolina	1,604	740	0.020	199
Massachusetts	995	905	0.016	157
New Jersey	1,213	704	0.014	144
Connecticut	484	834	0.014	142

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

Classification and Origin of KEARNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	275	1.38
White (Hispanic)	269	1.35
Asian/Pacific	92	0.46
Native American/Alaskan	34	0.17
White (Caucasian)	15,510	77.79
Black/African American	3,758	18.85

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

Similar names to KEARNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEARNEY.

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.