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The KEARNY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 229 77742 0 1
United States (1880 census) 513 9458 0.001 10
Change since 1880 -284 -68284 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KEARNY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 34 60779 0.000 1
Washington 34 20538 0.001 6
Texas 27 41664 0.000 1
New Jersey 17 54974 0.000 2
Wisconsin 13 52874 0.000 2
Top States for KEARNY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 34 20538 0.001 6
New Mexico 9 15162 0.000 5
Wisconsin 13 52874 0.000 2
Louisiana 10 27191 0.000 2
New Jersey 17 54974 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of KEARNY

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

Ethnic distribution of KEARNY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 184 80.35
Black/African American 40 17.47
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KEARNY in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEARNY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEARNY.

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 KEARNY

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