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    The surname Keesee

    A French surname, carried by 3,368 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K200

    Keesee: #9,636 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Keesee #9,636, 3,368 people Keesee: #9,636 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Keesee #9,636, 3,368 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Keesee is more common than 94.1% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    Presumably an American shortened and altered form of French Lacaze.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,368 people named Keesee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 91,670 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,193.

    #9,636
    rank among US surnames
    3,368
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.5%
    change since 2000 (was #9,362)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,631Trueblood3,37191,589
    #9,632Roane3,37091,616
    #9,633Partee3,36991,643
    #9,636Hornberger3,36891,670
    #9,638Xavier3,36791,698

    Who is named Keesee

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

    82% of people named Keesee identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Kissee
    • Kizzee
    • Kazee

    Surnames that sound like Keesee

    Keesee has the Soundex code K200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K200.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Keesee come from?
    Presumably an American shortened and altered form of French Lacaze.
    How common is the surname Keesee?
    3,368 people in the United States had the surname Keesee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,670 Americans. It ranked 9,636th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Keesee?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Keesee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Keesee getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,193 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,368 in 2010, up 5.5%.
    What are other spellings of Keesee?
    Kissee, Kizzee and Kazee.