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The KESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 381 51352 0 1
United States (1880 census) 71 39336 0 1
Change since 1880 +310 -12016 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 107 5574 0.002 20
New York 37 48145 0.000 2
California 36 58956 0.000 1
Ohio 36 33433 0.000 3
Minnesota 24 31132 0.000 5
Top States for KESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 107 5574 0.002 20
Nevada 12 19615 0.001 6
Nebraska 10 23123 0.001 6
Minnesota 24 31132 0.000 5
Connecticut 11 43120 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of KESS

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

Ethnic distribution of KESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 227 59.58
Black/African American 145 38.06
White (Hispanic) 5 1.31
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of KESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to KESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KESS.

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 KESS

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