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The KIELTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 749 29662 0 3
United States (1880 census) 33 60895 0 1
Change since 1880 +716 +31233 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 18 55250 0 1
United Kingdom 425 9959 0.001 9
Top States for KIELTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 122 5826 0.002 25
California 113 20229 0.000 3
New Jersey 55 17270 0.001 7
Massachusetts 46 15883 0.001 7
Florida 42 35330 0.000 3
Top States for KIELTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 122 5826 0.002 25
Nebraska 29 9062 0.002 17
North Dakota 8 12155 0.001 12
South Dakota 9 12788 0.001 12
Iowa 23 17986 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of KIELTY

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 KIELTY 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 KIELTY 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 KIELTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 716 95.59
White (Hispanic) 12 1.6
Mixed Race 8 1.07
Asian/Pacific 7 0.93
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 KIELTY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of KIELTY in historical publications

KEELTY. KIELTY. From the ancient personal name Caoilte, borne by one of the heroes of Ossiau. Ulster. Journ. of Archajol. No. 2.

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 KIELTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KIELTY.

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 KIELTY

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