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The KERNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,250 19890 0 5
United States (1880 census) 968 5609 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +282 -14281 +N/A -14
Other Countries
Australia 64 20827 0 4
United Kingdom 42 26638 0 1
Top States for KERNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 103 6447 0.002 18
Florida 99 19488 0.001 6
California 95 27285 0.000 3
Illinois 91 16777 0.001 7
Indiana 83 9910 0.001 14
Top States for KERNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 103 6447 0.002 18
Indiana 83 9910 0.001 14
Kentucky 55 7521 0.001 14
Maryland 58 10996 0.001 11
Washington 59 13828 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of KERNEY

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

Ethnic distribution of KERNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 879 70.32
Black/African American 333 26.64
Mixed Race 13 1.04
White (Hispanic) 13 1.04
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KERNEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to KERNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERNEY.

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 KERNEY

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