The KELTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,737	15473	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	414	11188	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+1323	-4285	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	124	11768	0.001	8
United Kingdom	42	26651	0	1

Top States for KELTY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	236	2370	0.006	58
Ohio	130	10419	0.001	11
New York	113	16988	0.001	6
Florida	104	16960	0.001	7
Illinois	94	14469	0.001	8
Top States for KELTY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	236	2370	0.006	58
Vermont	27	3662	0.004	44
Oregon	66	6779	0.002	19
Colorado	61	9139	0.001	14
Indiana	83	8923	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of KELTY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KELTY surname.

Ethnic distribution of KELTY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	123	7.08
White (Hispanic)	44	2.53
Mixed Race	23	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.92
Asian/Pacific	12	0.69
White (Caucasian)	1,519	87.45

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

KELTY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to KELTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KELTY.

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.