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The KATES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,790 8064 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 627 8050 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +3163 -14 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 52 24597 0 3
United Kingdom 193 16834 0 4
Top States for KATES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 383 5366 0.002 24
California 290 9402 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 285 5537 0.002 23
New Jersey 280 3580 0.003 33
Illinois 200 6735 0.002 16
Top States for KATES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 36 3930 0.005 46
New Jersey 280 3580 0.003 33
Oklahoma 114 4077 0.003 33
Rhode Island 32 5005 0.003 31
Missouri 139 5388 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of KATES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 871 22.98
White (Hispanic) 111 2.93
Mixed Race 60 1.58
Asian/Pacific 27 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.47
White (Caucasian) 2,703 71.32

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

Meaning of KATES in historical publications

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

Similar names to KATES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KATES.

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 KATES

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