Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Kerin

    A surname, carried by 780 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K650

    Kerin: #30,076 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Kerin #30,076, 780 people Kerin: #30,076 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Kerin #30,076, 780 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kerin is more common than 81.5% of them.

    Origin

    * As an Irish surname, variant of Kieran. * As a Slovene surname, from a derivative of Medieval Latin Quirinus, similar to Quirin, Kehr, Kirin. Possibly also a variant of Kern.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 780 people named Kerin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 395,828 Americans. That is down 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 795.

    #30,076
    rank among US surnames
    780
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.9%
    change since 2000 (was #28,298)

    Who is named Kerin

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

    95% of people named Kerin identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, 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 Kerin

    Kerin has the Soundex code K650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K650.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kerin come from?
    * As an Irish surname, variant of Kieran. * As a Slovene surname, from a derivative of Medieval Latin Quirinus, similar to Quirin, Kehr, Kirin. Possibly also a variant of Kern.
    How common is the surname Kerin?
    780 people in the United States had the surname Kerin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 395,828 Americans. It ranked 30,076th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kerin?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kerin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kerin getting more or less common?
    Less common. 795 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 780 in 2010, down 1.9%.