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The KEMPEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 595 35721 0 2
United States (1880 census) 45 52464 0 1
Change since 1880 +550 +16743 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 37 32698 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KEMPEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 314 1758 0.006 59
Illinois 50 21796 0.000 4
Missouri 41 13232 0.001 7
Texas 29 34347 0.000 1
California 22 74736 0.000 1
Top States for KEMPEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 314 1758 0.006 59
Alaska 13 6009 0.002 21
Missouri 41 13232 0.001 7
Rhode Island 5 21211 0.000 5
Illinois 50 21796 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of KEMPEN

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

Ethnic distribution of KEMPEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 579 97.31
Mixed Race 5 0.84
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KEMPEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEMPEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEMPEN.

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 KEMPEN

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