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    The surname Kahle

    A surname, carried by 3,195 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K400

    Kahle: #10,088 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kahle #10,088, 3,195 people Kahle: #10,088 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kahle #10,088, 3,195 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kahle is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,195 people named Kahle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,634 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,127.

    #10,088
    rank among US surnames
    3,195
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #9,536)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,079Gaudette3,19896,543
    #10,082Kiker3,19796,574
    #10,085Risinger3,19696,604
    #10,088Kahle3,19596,634
    #10,090Koziol3,19496,664
    #10,092Mines3,19396,694
    #10,095Perrault3,19096,785

    Who is named Kahle

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

    96% of people named Kahle identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Kahles

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Brewster Kahle
      American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive (born 1960)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Kahle

    Kahle has the Soundex code K400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kahle?
    3,195 people in the United States had the surname Kahle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,634 Americans. It ranked 10,088th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kahle?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kahle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
    Who is the most famous person named Kahle?
    Brewster Kahle, American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive (born 1960).
    Where is the surname Kahle most common?
    Wikidata records people named Kahle in the United States.
    Is the surname Kahle getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,127 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,195 in 2010, up 2.2%.