The KIEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,377	7049	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	653	7798	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+3724	+749	+0.001	+3
Other Countries
Australia	118	12271	0.001	7
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KIEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	422	2643	0.004	42
California	340	7696	0.001	10
Illinois	338	3704	0.003	27
Texas	310	6136	0.001	15
Wisconsin	293	2331	0.005	55
Top States for KIEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	293	2331	0.005	55
Minnesota	239	2565	0.005	49
Michigan	422	2643	0.004	42
Indiana	224	3359	0.004	37
Iowa	95	4367	0.003	32

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

Classification and Origin of KIEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	324	7.4
Asian/Pacific	44	1.01
White (Hispanic)	42	0.96
Mixed Race	41	0.94
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.32
White (Caucasian)	3,912	89.38

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

Similar names to KIEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KIEL.

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.