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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

'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.

Meaning of KERN in historical publications

KERN. 1. Scot. Jiertie, a foot-soldier armed with a dart or a dagger. 2. A beggar. Jamieson.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KERN

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