The surname Kelch
A German surname, carried by 3,018 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex K420
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from German Kelch.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,018 people named Kelch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,301 Americans. That is up 35% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,229.
Who is named Kelch
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Kelch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Kelch has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Kelch come from?
- Borrowed from German Kelch.
- How common is the surname Kelch?
- 3,018 people in the United States had the surname Kelch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,301 Americans. It ranked 10,613th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kelch?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kelch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Kelch getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,229 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,018 in 2010, up 35%.