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The KEER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 300 62396 0 1
United States (1880 census) 651 7825 0.001 13
Change since 1880 -351 -54571 +N/A -12
Other Countries
Australia 5 147530 0 0
United Kingdom 236 14868 0.001 5
Top States for KEER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 60 22163 0.000 5
California 44 45545 0.000 1
Florida 28 47894 0.000 2
Illinois 25 46906 0.000 2
New Jersey 23 39707 0.000 3
Top States for KEER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 60 22163 0.000 5
New Jersey 23 39707 0.000 3
Nevada 5 39790 0.000 3
Massachusetts 13 47753 0.000 2
Illinois 25 46906 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 KEER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KEER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KEER in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KEER by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KEER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 264 88
Black/African American 15 5
White (Hispanic) 9 3
Asian/Pacific 7 2.33
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of KEER in historical publications

KEER. See Keir. KEETE. See Keate. KEEVIL. A parish ia Wiltshire.

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 KEER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEER.

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 KEER

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