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The KERSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,021 4087 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 1,351 4207 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +6670 +120 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 76 18053 0 5
United Kingdom 784 6359 0.002 17
Top States for KERSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 948 2261 0.006 59
Georgia 906 1229 0.011 111
North Carolina 472 2484 0.006 59
California 414 6991 0.001 12
Indiana 392 2072 0.006 64
Top States for KERSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 906 1229 0.011 111
Kentucky 349 1707 0.009 86
Arkansas 230 1645 0.009 86
West Virginia 130 2009 0.007 72
Delaware 56 2606 0.007 71

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

Classification and Origin of KERSEY

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 KERSEY 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 KERSEY 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 KERSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 936 11.67
White (Hispanic) 114 1.42
Mixed Race 106 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 54 0.67
Asian/Pacific 34 0.42
White (Caucasian) 6,777 84.49

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

Meaning of KERSEY in historical publications

KERSEY. A parish in Suffolk.

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 KERSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERSEY.

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 KERSEY

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