# Kelling (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/kelling/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,887 |
| US rank (2010) | 11,016 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 106,943 people |
| Change since 2000 | +100% (1,445 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kelling in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Kelling in the United States.

## People named Kelling

- George L. Kelling, American criminologist (1935-2019)

## Similar surnames

Keeling, Kling, Koelling, Klinger, Killingsworth, Klink, Kalinowski, Klingler, Klingensmith, Klimek, Kleinschmidt, Killinger.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.