The KINLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,969	10013	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	686	7481	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+2283	-2532	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	62	21362	0	4
United Kingdom	381	10806	0.001	8

Top States for KINLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	454	2558	0.006	56
Pennsylvania	340	4736	0.003	28
South Carolina	229	2708	0.006	57
Florida	189	10288	0.001	12
Ohio	170	8305	0.001	15
Top States for KINLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	229	2708	0.006	57
North Carolina	454	2558	0.006	56
Pennsylvania	340	4736	0.003	28
Iowa	80	5958	0.003	27
Arkansas	67	4685	0.003	25

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

Classification and Origin of KINLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	321	10.81
Mixed Race	50	1.68
White (Hispanic)	42	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	34	1.15
Asian/Pacific	18	0.61
White (Caucasian)	2,504	84.34

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

Similar names to KINLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KINLEY.

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.