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The KWON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,405 3472 0.003 35
United States (1880 census) 1 112584 0 0
Change since 1880 +9404 +109112 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 159 9342 0.001 10
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KWON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,087 1052 0.009 91
New York 852 2176 0.004 45
New Jersey 776 1143 0.009 92
Virginia 537 1734 0.008 76
Illinois 500 2558 0.004 40
Top States for KWON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 134 697 0.011 111
New Jersey 776 1143 0.009 92
California 3,087 1052 0.009 91
Maryland 443 1368 0.008 84
Alaska 52 1563 0.008 83

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

Classification and Origin of KWON

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KWON 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.

Ethnic distribution of KWON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 152 1.62
White (Caucasian) 141 1.5
White (Hispanic) 33 0.35
Asian/Pacific 9,064 96.37
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of KWON in historical publications

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

Similar names to KWON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KWON.

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 KWON

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