The KERR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	42,758	729	0.016	158
United States (1880 census)	13,218	447	0.026	264
Change since 1880	+29540	-282	-0.01	-106
Other Countries
Australia	7,700	163	0.047	471
United Kingdom	27,384	188	0.06	596

Top States for KERR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,532	846	0.010	104
Pennsylvania	3,277	308	0.027	267
Florida	2,903	624	0.018	182
Texas	2,890	836	0.014	139
Ohio	2,242	507	0.020	197
Top States for KERR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	1,018	407	0.030	295
Pennsylvania	3,277	308	0.027	267
Vermont	144	634	0.024	237
Colorado	946	492	0.022	220
Oregon	751	467	0.022	220

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of KERR

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 KERR 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 KERR 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 KERR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	714	1.67
Mixed Race	697	1.63
Asian/Pacific	274	0.64
Native American/Alaskan	239	0.56
White (Caucasian)	38,136	89.19
Black/African American	2,698	6.31

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

Similar names to KERR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERR.

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.