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    The surname Keddy

    A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 532 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K300

    Keddy: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Keddy #40,976, 532 people Keddy: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Keddy #40,976, 532 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Keddy is more common than 74.7% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    Contraction of McAdie and related names, anglicisations of Scottish Gaelic Mac Adaidh, derived from a diminutive of Adam. Compare Keddie.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 532 people named Keddy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 497.

    #40,976
    rank among US surnames
    532
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #41,320)

    Who is named Keddy

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

    94% of people named Keddy identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Keedy

    Surnames that sound like Keddy

    Keddy has the Soundex code K300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K300.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Keddy come from?
    Contraction of McAdie and related names, anglicisations of Scottish Gaelic Mac Adaidh, derived from a diminutive of Adam. Compare Keddie.
    How common is the surname Keddy?
    532 people in the United States had the surname Keddy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. It ranked 40,976th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Keddy?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Keddy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Keddy getting more or less common?
    More common. 497 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 532 in 2010, up 7.0%.
    What are other spellings of Keddy?
    Keedy.