How common is the surname Kesterson?

2,952 people in the United States had the surname Kesterson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,589 Americans. It ranked 10,800th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kesterson?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kesterson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kesterson getting more or less common?

More common. 2,835 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,952 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Kesterson

A surname, carried by 2,952 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex K236

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kesterson is more common than 93.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,952 people named Kesterson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,589 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,835.

#10,800

rank among US surnames

2,952

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #10,419)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,792	Turnbow	2,955	104,482
#10,795	Rothschild	2,954	104,518
#10,797	Coffelt	2,953	104,553
#10,800	Kesterson	2,952	104,589
#10,803	Giuliano	2,951	104,624
#10,805	Follett	2,950	104,660
#10,806	Mahaney	2,949	104,695

Who is named Kesterson

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

95% of people named Kesterson identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kesterson

Kesterson has the Soundex code K236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K236.

Questions

How common is the surname Kesterson?: 2,952 people in the United States had the surname Kesterson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,589 Americans. It ranked 10,800th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kesterson?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kesterson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kesterson getting more or less common?: More common. 2,835 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,952 in 2010, up 4.1%.