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The KEIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 800 28166 0 3
United States (1880 census) 128 26565 0 3
Change since 1880 +672 -1601 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 507 3169 0.003 31
United Kingdom 1,526 3695 0.003 33
Top States for KEIR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 94 22169 0.000 3
New York 81 20658 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 62 20759 0.001 5
Florida 49 28818 0.000 3
Texas 45 26333 0.000 2
Top States for KEIR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 13 6216 0.002 21
New Hampshire 18 7857 0.001 15
Delaware 10 11229 0.001 13
Massachusetts 42 16248 0.001 7
Hawaii 7 13226 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of KEIR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 747 93.38
White (Hispanic) 20 2.5
Black/African American 15 1.88
Native American/Alaskan 8 1
Asian/Pacific 5 0.63
Mixed Race 5 0.63

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

Meaning of KEIR in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEIR.

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 KEIR

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