How common is the surname Kesner?

1,980 people in the United States had the surname Kesner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,932 Americans. It ranked 14,943rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kesner?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kesner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kesner getting more or less common?

More common. 1,871 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,980 in 2010, up 5.8%.

The surname Kesner

A surname, carried by 1,980 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K256

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kesner is more common than 90.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,980 people named Kesner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,932 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,871.

#14,943

rank among US surnames

1,980

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+5.8%

change since 2000 (was #14,590)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,937	Einhorn	1,981	155,853
#14,943	Setser	1,980	155,932
#14,946	Deloera	1,979	156,011
#14,950	Ingold	1,978	156,090

Who is named Kesner

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

94% of people named Kesner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kesner

Kesner has the Soundex code K256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K256.

Questions

How common is the surname Kesner?: 1,980 people in the United States had the surname Kesner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,932 Americans. It ranked 14,943rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kesner?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kesner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kesner getting more or less common?: More common. 1,871 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,980 in 2010, up 5.8%.