The KELSO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,360	3910	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	2,502	2427	0.005	50
Change since 1880	+5858	-1483	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	605	2676	0.004	37
United Kingdom	1,127	4763	0.002	25

Top States for KELSO by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	844	2780	0.004	40
California	767	3965	0.002	23
Illinois	437	3005	0.004	35
Florida	396	5108	0.002	25
Missouri	392	1900	0.007	70
Top States for KELSO by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oregon	260	1683	0.008	76
Idaho	91	2058	0.007	70
Missouri	392	1900	0.007	70
Oklahoma	218	2233	0.006	63
Colorado	258	2184	0.006	60

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

Classification and Origin of KELSO

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 KELSO 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 KELSO 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 KELSO in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	606	7.25
Mixed Race	151	1.81
White (Hispanic)	135	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	55	0.66
Asian/Pacific	43	0.51
White (Caucasian)	7,370	88.16

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

Similar names to KELSO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KELSO.

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.