The KENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	42,597	733	0.016	158
United States (1880 census)	11,720	505	0.023	234
Change since 1880	+30877	-228	-0.007	-76
Other Countries
Australia	4,471	328	0.027	274
United Kingdom	16,029	357	0.035	349

Top States for KENT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,687	845	0.011	109
Florida	3,323	565	0.021	208
Texas	2,555	993	0.012	123
New York	2,513	652	0.013	132
Georgia	2,022	502	0.025	247
Top States for KENT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	367	403	0.028	284
Alabama	1,224	608	0.028	275
Vermont	166	562	0.027	273
Oregon	881	396	0.026	257
Georgia	2,022	502	0.025	247

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

Classification and Origin of KENT

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 KENT 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 KENT 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 KENT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	630	1.48
White (Hispanic)	584	1.37
Asian/Pacific	264	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	251	0.59
White (Caucasian)	36,659	86.06
Black/African American	4,209	9.88

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

Similar names to KENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KENT.

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.