The KINGSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,395	5035	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,446	3957	0.003	29
Change since 1880	+4949	-1078	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	1,798	905	0.011	110
United Kingdom	4,073	1543	0.009	89

Top States for KINGSTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	691	2813	0.004	36
California	593	4907	0.002	18
Texas	465	4614	0.002	22
Florida	402	5021	0.003	25
Pennsylvania	357	4317	0.003	29
Top States for KINGSTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	201	1528	0.009	90
New Hampshire	75	2521	0.006	61
Vermont	36	2816	0.006	59
Montana	50	2495	0.006	55
Maine	69	2991	0.005	54

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

Classification and Origin of KINGSTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	538	8.41
White (Hispanic)	112	1.75
Mixed Race	72	1.13
Asian/Pacific	43	0.67
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.44
White (Caucasian)	5,602	87.6

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

Similar names to KINGSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KINGSTON.

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.