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The KEEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,218 3971 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 1,482 3878 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +6736 -93 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 139 10609 0.001 9
United Kingdom 625 7539 0.001 14
Top States for KEEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 783 994 0.018 176
Texas 734 3242 0.004 35
North Carolina 719 1719 0.009 89
Florida 504 4195 0.003 32
Tennessee 479 1862 0.008 84
Top States for KEEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 783 994 0.018 176
Mississippi 312 1399 0.011 110
North Carolina 719 1719 0.009 89
Tennessee 479 1862 0.008 84
Oklahoma 250 1959 0.007 72

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

Classification and Origin of KEEL

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 KEEL 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 KEEL 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 KEEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 135 1.64
Native American/Alaskan 125 1.52
White (Hispanic) 76 0.92
Asian/Pacific 71 0.86
White (Caucasian) 6,733 81.93
Black/African American 1,078 13.12

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

Meaning of KEEL in historical publications

A low, flat-bottomed vessel used in the river Tyne, to convey coals; an inn-sign; a harbor. Kiel, local, a town in Denmark, a corner, wedge, a ravine.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


KEEL. Keele, a parish in co. Stafford.

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 KEEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEEL.

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 KEEL

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