The surname Kersh
A surname, carried by 1,793 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex K620
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,793 people named Kersh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,195 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,423.
#16,136
rank among US surnames
1,793
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+26%
change since 2000 (was #18,069)
Who is named Kersh
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
80% of people named Kersh identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 80%
- Black (not Hispanic) 14%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Kersh has the Soundex code K620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K620.
Questions
- How common is the surname Kersh?
- 1,793 people in the United States had the surname Kersh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,195 Americans. It ranked 16,136th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kersh?
- In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Kersh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Kersh getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,423 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,793 in 2010, up 26%.