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    The surname Kien

    A Vietnamese surname, carried by 600 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K500

    Kien: #37,180 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Kien #37,180, 600 people Kien: #37,180 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Kien #37,180, 600 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kien is more common than 77.1% of them.

    Origin

    Vietnamese origin

    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Vietnamese Kiến. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Kien, a variant of Kuhn.

    One of 31 Vietnamese surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 600 people named Kien in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 514,576 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 481.

    #37,180
    rank among US surnames
    600
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +24.7%
    change since 2000 (was #42,437)

    Who is named Kien

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

    68% of people named Kien identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 24% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 68%
    • White (not Hispanic) 24%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 4.8%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kien

    Kien has the Soundex code K500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K500.

    Other Vietnamese surnames

    All 31 Vietnamese surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kien come from?
    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Vietnamese Kiến. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Kien, a variant of Kuhn.
    How common is the surname Kien?
    600 people in the United States had the surname Kien in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 514,576 Americans. It ranked 37,180th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kien?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Kien identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 24% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Kien getting more or less common?
    More common. 481 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 600 in 2010, up 25%.