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    The surname Keffer

    A surname, carried by 3,493 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K160

    Keffer: #9,320 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Keffer #9,320, 3,493 people Keffer: #9,320 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Keffer #9,320, 3,493 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Keffer is more common than 94.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,493 people named Keffer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 88,390 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,529.

    #9,320
    rank among US surnames
    3,493
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #8,583)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,313Barreras3,49688,314
    #9,314Elswick3,49588,339
    #9,319Maughan3,49488,364
    #9,320Niehaus3,49388,390
    #9,328Klimek3,49288,415

    Who is named Keffer

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

    95% of people named Keffer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Keffer

    Keffer 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 Keffer?
    3,493 people in the United States had the surname Keffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,390 Americans. It ranked 9,320th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Keffer?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Keffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Keffer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 3,529 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,493 in 2010, down 1.0%.