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The KIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,954 14127 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 414 11191 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1540 -2936 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 2 242630 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 175 11149 0.001 9
California 164 15217 0.000 5
Pennsylvania 139 10917 0.001 11
Texas 122 13491 0.001 6
Colorado 116 4872 0.003 27
Top States for KIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 72 3457 0.004 42
Colorado 116 4872 0.003 27
Washington 113 6587 0.002 19
Alaska 11 9860 0.002 18
Wyoming 6 12152 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of KIER

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

Ethnic distribution of KIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 171 8.75
Native American/Alaskan 56 2.87
White (Hispanic) 42 2.15
Mixed Race 29 1.48
Asian/Pacific 25 1.28
White (Caucasian) 1,631 83.47

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

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

Meaning of KIER in historical publications

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

Similar names to KIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KIER.

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 KIER

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