How common is the surname Kann?

1,370 people in the United States had the surname Kann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. It ranked 19,671st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kann?

In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Kann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Who is the most famous person named Kann?

Alec Kann, American soccer player, followed by Marcus Kann.

Where is the surname Kann most common?

Wikidata records people named Kann in the United States and Cisleithania.

Is the surname Kann getting more or less common?

More common. 1,347 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,370 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Kann

A surname, carried by 1,370 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kann is more common than 87.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,370 people named Kann in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,347.

#19,671

rank among US surnames

1,370

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,802)

Who is named Kann

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

86% of people named Kann identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Asian and Pacific Islander 9.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
Two or more races 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Kanns

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Alec Kann
American soccer player, born 1990
Marcus Kann
Austrian chess player (1820–1886)

Notable Kanns come mostly from the United States (1) and Cisleithania (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kann

Kann has the Soundex code K500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K500.

Questions

How common is the surname Kann?: 1,370 people in the United States had the surname Kann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. It ranked 19,671st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kann?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Kann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Who is the most famous person named Kann?: Alec Kann, American soccer player, followed by Marcus Kann.
Where is the surname Kann most common?: Wikidata records people named Kann in the United States and Cisleithania.
Is the surname Kann getting more or less common?: More common. 1,347 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,370 in 2010, up 1.7%.