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The KERSTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,132 9520 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 165 22136 0 3
Change since 1880 +2967 +12616 +N/A +9
Other Countries
Australia 186 8035 0.001 11
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KERSTEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 658 839 0.012 123
California 256 9748 0.001 8
Illinois 210 5887 0.002 17
Minnesota 195 3247 0.004 40
Michigan 187 6206 0.002 19
Top States for KERSTEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 658 839 0.012 123
North Dakota 65 1307 0.010 101
Nebraska 76 2958 0.004 44
Minnesota 195 3247 0.004 40
Iowa 89 4612 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of KERSTEN

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 KERSTEN 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 KERSTEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 31 0.99
Asian/Pacific 18 0.57
Mixed Race 18 0.57
White (Caucasian) 3,056 97.57
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of KERSTEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to KERSTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERSTEN.

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 KERSTEN

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