The KELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,131	6147	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	1,346	4222	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+3785	-1925	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	389	4075	0.002	24
United Kingdom	1,513	3726	0.003	33

Top States for KELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	414	6706	0.001	12
Pennsylvania	302	5074	0.002	25
Florida	291	6765	0.002	18
Georgia	281	3247	0.003	34
Texas	269	7102	0.001	13
Top States for KELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	229	3279	0.004	43
Missouri	228	3311	0.004	41
Arkansas	102	3287	0.004	38
Alabama	166	3474	0.004	37
Tennessee	198	3720	0.003	35

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of KELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	89	1.73
Black/African American	87	1.7
Mixed Race	53	1.03
Native American/Alaskan	18	0.35
Asian/Pacific	14	0.27
White (Caucasian)	4,870	94.91

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

Similar names to KELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KELL.

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.