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The KU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,755 8131 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 23 70419 0 0
Change since 1880 +3732 +62288 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 212 7140 0.001 13
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,533 2112 0.005 45
New York 363 5478 0.002 19
Texas 207 8890 0.001 10
New Jersey 163 6109 0.002 19
Illinois 160 8402 0.001 13
Top States for KU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 109 910 0.009 90
California 1,533 2112 0.005 45
Nevada 46 5201 0.002 23
Maryland 105 5633 0.002 20
New Jersey 163 6109 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of KU

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KU surname.

Ethnic distribution of KU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 196 5.22
White (Caucasian) 131 3.49
Mixed Race 115 3.06
Black/African American 8 0.21
Asian/Pacific 3,305 88.02
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

KU is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KU in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KU.

Similar names to KU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KU.

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.