The KENNETH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	652	33090	0	2
United States (1880 census)	117	28300	0	2
Change since 1880	+535	-4790	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	30	37589	0	2
United Kingdom	310	12463	0.001	7

Top States for KENNETH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	62	13876	0.000	2
New York	53	12539	0.000	3
Ohio	48	9619	0.000	4
Florida	41	14879	0.000	3
Texas	39	14017	0.000	2
Top States for KENNETH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	4	10091	0.001	6
New Mexico	10	5611	0.001	5
Ohio	48	9619	0.000	4
Wyoming	2	14764	0.000	4
Minnesota	19	14387	0.000	4

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

Classification and Origin of KENNETH

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of KENNETH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	397	60.89
Black/African American	114	17.48
Native American/Alaskan	102	15.64
Mixed Race	14	2.15
White (Hispanic)	14	2.15
Asian/Pacific	11	1.69

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

Similar names to KENNETH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENNETH.

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.