The KERRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,859	14664	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	372	12151	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+1487	-2513	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	342	4618	0.002	21
United Kingdom	3,577	1751	0.008	78

Top States for KERRY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	318	1926	0.007	71
California	158	15215	0.000	5
Michigan	152	8111	0.002	15
Florida	123	14033	0.001	8
Texas	119	13414	0.001	6
Top States for KERRY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	318	1926	0.007	71
Maine	28	5615	0.002	22
Michigan	152	8111	0.002	15
Massachusetts	65	11717	0.001	10
Washington DC	5	12019	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of KERRY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KERRY 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 KERRY 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 KERRY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	242	13.02
White (Hispanic)	29	1.56
Mixed Race	25	1.34
Asian/Pacific	19	1.02
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.75
White (Caucasian)	1,530	82.3

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

Similar names to KERRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERRY.

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.