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The KEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 444 45403 0 2
United States (1880 census) 111 29269 0 2
Change since 1880 +333 -16134 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 38 31657 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 74 16540 0.000 2
Texas 31 22477 0.000 1
Florida 27 29399 0.000 2
Georgia 20 13835 0.000 2
New York 19 46733 0.000 1
Top States for KEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 11 10665 0.000 4
Wyoming 2 18610 0.000 4
Montana 3 22033 0.000 3
Vermont 2 21514 0.000 3
Utah 7 14240 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of KEN

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

Ethnic distribution of KEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 191 43.02
White (Caucasian) 175 39.41
Black/African American 36 8.11
Mixed Race 25 5.63
White (Hispanic) 11 2.48
Native American/Alaskan 6 1.35

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

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

Meaning of KEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEN.

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 KEN

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