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The KETTLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,469 17619 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 792 6610 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +677 -11009 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 448 3552 0.003 27
United Kingdom 2,881 2153 0.006 63
Top States for KETTLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 145 12400 0.001 7
New York 135 15199 0.001 7
California 119 21168 0.000 4
Colorado 101 5932 0.002 23
Florida 94 19262 0.001 6
Top States for KETTLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 77 3789 0.003 34
Rhode Island 31 5411 0.003 30
Colorado 101 5932 0.002 23
Connecticut 79 6302 0.002 23
Idaho 24 8133 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of KETTLE

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 KETTLE 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 KETTLE 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 KETTLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 96 6.54
Native American/Alaskan 73 4.97
Mixed Race 23 1.57
White (Caucasian) 1,261 85.84
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of KETTLE in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the parish of Kettle, in Fifeshire, Scotland.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


KETTLE. 1. AparishinFifeshh-e. 2. The personal name Chetell occurring in Domesday ; in H.Pi. Ketel, Kctyl.

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 KETTLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KETTLE.

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 KETTLE

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