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The KINNEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,625 16326 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 486 9908 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1139 -6418 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 457 3481 0.003 28
United Kingdom 1,669 3431 0.004 36
Top States for KINNEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 175 13645 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 175 8289 0.001 14
Ohio 109 11527 0.001 10
Florida 106 15676 0.001 7
New York 98 18260 0.001 5
Top States for KINNEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 95 5895 0.002 18
Wyoming 8 8905 0.002 16
Oregon 49 8425 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 175 8289 0.001 14
Washington 79 8801 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of KINNEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 46 2.83
Mixed Race 30 1.85
White (Hispanic) 26 1.6
Asian/Pacific 10 0.62
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.37
White (Caucasian) 1,507 92.74

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

Meaning of KINNEAR in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) A head man or chief. Ceanneir, from Ceann, head, and eir, an abbreviation of fear, a man.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to KINNEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KINNEAR.

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 KINNEAR

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