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The KITCHEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,478 2298 0.005 54
United States (1880 census) 3,385 1810 0.007 68
Change since 1880 +11093 -488 -0.002 -14
Other Countries
Australia 594 2724 0.004 36
United Kingdom 5,275 1185 0.011 115
Top States for KITCHEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,466 952 0.013 129
Michigan 1,185 938 0.012 119
Pennsylvania 1,005 1558 0.008 82
California 979 3330 0.003 29
Florida 965 2257 0.006 60
Top States for KITCHEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 299 1079 0.013 134
Ohio 1,466 952 0.013 129
Kentucky 509 1220 0.013 126
Michigan 1,185 938 0.012 119
West Virginia 213 1321 0.012 118

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

Classification and Origin of KITCHEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 235 1.62
White (Hispanic) 198 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 122 0.84
Asian/Pacific 62 0.43
White (Caucasian) 11,756 81.2
Black/African American 2,107 14.55

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

Meaning of KITCHEN in historical publications

KITCHEN. KITCHENER. Probably a name given to a servitor in the kitchen of some medieval nobleman.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to KITCHEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KITCHEN.

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 KITCHEN

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