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    The surname Kelsch

    A surname, carried by 1,996 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K420

    Kelsch: #14,842 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kelsch #14,842, 1,996 people Kelsch: #14,842 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kelsch #14,842, 1,996 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kelsch is more common than 90.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,996 people named Kelsch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 154,682 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,719.

    #14,842
    rank among US surnames
    1,996
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +16.1%
    change since 2000 (was #15,611)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,834Dames1,998154,527
    #14,838Degen1,997154,605
    #14,842Pfau1,996154,682
    #14,848Aslam1,995154,760

    Who is named Kelsch

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

    97% of people named Kelsch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kelsch

    Kelsch has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kelsch?
    1,996 people in the United States had the surname Kelsch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 154,682 Americans. It ranked 14,842nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kelsch?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Kelsch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Kelsch getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,719 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,996 in 2010, up 16%.