The KENDALL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	29,524	1082	0.011	109
United States (1880 census)	8,772	682	0.018	175
Change since 1880	+20752	-400	-0.007	-66
Other Countries
Australia	2,013	804	0.012	123
United Kingdom	9,294	643	0.02	202

Top States for KENDALL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,431	1364	0.007	72
Indiana	1,773	351	0.029	292
Florida	1,622	1293	0.010	101
Texas	1,437	1724	0.007	69
Illinois	1,249	990	0.010	101
Top States for KENDALL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	235	362	0.039	386
Indiana	1,773	351	0.029	292
New Hampshire	314	595	0.025	254
Utah	551	505	0.025	247
Alaska	144	492	0.023	230

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

Classification and Origin of KENDALL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	419	1.42
Mixed Race	384	1.3
Asian/Pacific	159	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	148	0.5
White (Caucasian)	25,848	87.55
Black/African American	2,566	8.69

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

Similar names to KENDALL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENDALL.

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.