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    The surname Kaul

    A surname, carried by 4,128 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K400

    Kaul: #8,016 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kaul #8,016, 4,128 people Kaul: #8,016 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kaul #8,016, 4,128 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kaul is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    Borrowed from Kashmiri कौल (kọ̄l).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,128 people named Kaul in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,793 Americans. That is up 55% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,671.

    #8,016
    rank among US surnames
    4,128
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +54.5%
    change since 2000 (was #10,933)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,010Yousif4,13074,757
    #8,013Seeger4,12974,775
    #8,016Kaul4,12874,793
    #8,019Pawlak4,12774,811
    #8,023Markel4,12674,829

    Who is named Kaul

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

    47% of people named Kaul identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 47%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 46%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kaul

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kaul come from?
    Borrowed from Kashmiri कौल (kọ̄l).
    How common is the surname Kaul?
    4,128 people in the United States had the surname Kaul in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,793 Americans. It ranked 8,016th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kaul?
    In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Kaul identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Kaul getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,671 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,128 in 2010, up 55%.