The KERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,634	1162	0.01	102
United States (1880 census)	7,354	822	0.015	147
Change since 1880	+20280	-340	-0.005	-45
Other Countries
Australia	198	7623	0.001	12
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KERN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,854	377	0.023	232
California	2,025	1544	0.006	60
Ohio	1,796	664	0.016	158
Florida	1,576	1246	0.010	99
Michigan	1,419	675	0.014	143
Top States for KERN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,854	377	0.023	232
Minnesota	1,059	386	0.022	215
Montana	178	494	0.020	197
Indiana	1,118	578	0.018	184
Iowa	529	530	0.018	181

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

Classification and Origin of KERN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KERN 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.

Ethnic distribution of KERN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	569	2.06
White (Hispanic)	348	1.26
Mixed Race	290	1.05
Asian/Pacific	155	0.56
Native American/Alaskan	88	0.32
White (Caucasian)	26,186	94.76

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

Similar names to KERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERN.

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.