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The surname Keever

A surname, carried by 3,386 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K160

Keever: #9,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Keever #9,596, 3,386 people Keever: #9,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Keever #9,596, 3,386 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Keever is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,386 people named Keever in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 91,183 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,808.

#9,596
rank among US surnames
3,386
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+20.6%
change since 2000 (was #10,494)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#9,592Bicknell3,38991,102
#9,593Costantino3,38891,129
#9,594Hoelscher3,38791,156
#9,596Keever3,38691,183
#9,598Lundeen3,38591,210

Who is named Keever

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

93% of people named Keever identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Keever

Keever has the Soundex code K160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K160.

Questions

How common is the surname Keever?
3,386 people in the United States had the surname Keever in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,183 Americans. It ranked 9,596th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Keever?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Keever identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Keever getting more or less common?
More common. 2,808 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,386 in 2010, up 21%.