The KILLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,726	8195	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	1,072	5152	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+2654	-3043	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	471	3392	0.003	29
United Kingdom	1,458	3852	0.003	32

Top States for KILLEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	297	2189	0.007	67
Texas	277	6719	0.001	13
California	245	10243	0.001	7
Tennessee	228	3253	0.004	40
Florida	207	8765	0.001	13
Top States for KILLEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	98	1382	0.013	125
Alabama	297	2189	0.007	67
Mississippi	163	2249	0.006	57
Tennessee	228	3253	0.004	40
West Virginia	67	3040	0.004	37

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

Classification and Origin of KILLEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	117	3.14
Mixed Race	50	1.34
White (Hispanic)	39	1.05
Asian/Pacific	19	0.51
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.35
White (Caucasian)	3,488	93.61

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

Similar names to KILLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KILLEN.

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.