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The KEENER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,046 2545 0.005 48
United States (1880 census) 2,465 2472 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +10581 -73 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 6 121235 0 0
United Kingdom 16 29099 0 0
Top States for KEENER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,622 845 0.013 132
Ohio 1,294 1069 0.011 114
North Carolina 1,013 1270 0.013 126
Texas 922 2606 0.004 44
California 667 4531 0.002 20
Top States for KEENER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 523 540 0.029 289
Pennsylvania 1,622 845 0.013 132
North Carolina 1,013 1270 0.013 126
Arkansas 319 1167 0.012 119
Ohio 1,294 1069 0.011 114

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

Classification and Origin of KEENER

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 KEENER 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 KEENER 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 KEENER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 505 3.87
Native American/Alaskan 176 1.35
White (Hispanic) 146 1.12
Mixed Race 144 1.1
Asian/Pacific 60 0.46
White (Caucasian) 12,015 92.1

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

Meaning of KEENER in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEENER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEENER.

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 KEENER

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