How common is the surname Cairns?

5,192 people in the United States had the surname Cairns in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 59,466 Americans. It ranked 6,527th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cairns?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Cairns identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Cairns?

William Cairns, British colonial administrator (1828–1888).

Where is the surname Cairns most common?

Wikidata records people named Cairns in Ireland.

How do you pronounce Cairns?

Cairns is /kɛɹnz/, one syllable.

Is the surname Cairns getting more or less common?

Less common. 5,213 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,192 in 2010, down 0.4%.

The surname Cairns

A Scottish surname, carried by 5,192 people in the United States.

Pronounced /kɛɹnz/ 1 syllable Soundex C652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cairns is more common than 96% of them.

Origin

Scottish origin

* As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,192 people named Cairns in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 59,466 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,213.

#6,527

rank among US surnames

5,192

people in 2010

1.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.4%

change since 2000 (was #6,067)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,520	Pettus	5,204	59,329
#6,521	Macy	5,203	59,340
#6,522	Reiner	5,202	59,351
#6,523	Claiborne	5,201	59,363
#6,524	Oswalt	5,198	59,397
#6,525	Berumen	5,195	59,431
#6,526	Goodall	5,193	59,454

Who is named Cairns

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Cairns identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Cairnss

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

William Cairns
British colonial administrator (1828–1888)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cairns

Cairns has the Soundex code C652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C652.

Questions

Where does the surname Cairns come from?: * As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.
How common is the surname Cairns?: 5,192 people in the United States had the surname Cairns in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 59,466 Americans. It ranked 6,527th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cairns?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Cairns identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Cairns?: William Cairns, British colonial administrator (1828–1888).
Where is the surname Cairns most common?: Wikidata records people named Cairns in Ireland.
How do you pronounce Cairns?: Cairns is /kɛɹnz/, one syllable.
Is the surname Cairns getting more or less common?: Less common. 5,213 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,192 in 2010, down 0.4%.