The KEYES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,020	2079	0.006	59
United States (1880 census)	4,186	1475	0.008	84
Change since 1880	+11834	-604	-0.002	-25
Other Countries
Australia	339	4660	0.002	21
United Kingdom	854	5961	0.002	19

Top States for KEYES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,302	2611	0.004	38
Michigan	1,047	1091	0.011	105
Mississippi	1,011	455	0.036	355
Florida	945	2338	0.006	59
New York	864	2330	0.005	46
Top States for KEYES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,011	455	0.036	355
Vermont	119	958	0.020	195
Utah	312	1041	0.014	140
Massachusetts	782	1230	0.012	123
Alaska	70	1209	0.011	112

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

Classification and Origin of KEYES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	947	5.91
Mixed Race	276	1.72
Asian/Pacific	143	0.89
Native American/Alaskan	111	0.69
White (Caucasian)	10,741	67.05
Black/African American	3,805	23.75

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

Similar names to KEYES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEYES.

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.