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The KENNISTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 420 47485 0 2
United States (1880 census) 228 17510 0 5
Change since 1880 +192 -29975 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KENNISTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 65 35333 0.000 2
Maine 58 3464 0.005 45
Connecticut 56 8657 0.002 16
Massachusetts 51 15527 0.001 8
Florida 29 51475 0.000 2
Top States for KENNISTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 58 3464 0.005 45
Connecticut 56 8657 0.002 16
New Hampshire 10 15952 0.001 8
Massachusetts 51 15527 0.001 8
Idaho 4 37230 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 KENNISTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KENNISTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KENNISTON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KENNISTON by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KENNISTON

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

Ethnic distribution of KENNISTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 378 90
White (Hispanic) 32 7.62
Black/African American 5 1.19
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KENNISTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to KENNISTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENNISTON.

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 KENNISTON

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