How common is the surname Kersting?

1,390 people in the United States had the surname Kersting in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. It ranked 19,441st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kersting?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kersting identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kersting getting more or less common?

More common. 1,360 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,390 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Kersting

A surname, carried by 1,390 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kersting is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,390 people named Kersting in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,360.

#19,441

rank among US surnames

1,390

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #18,667)

Who is named Kersting

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

95% of people named Kersting identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kersting

Kersting has the Soundex code K623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K623.

Questions

How common is the surname Kersting?: 1,390 people in the United States had the surname Kersting in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. It ranked 19,441st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kersting?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kersting identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kersting getting more or less common?: More common. 1,360 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,390 in 2010, up 2.2%.