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    The surname Kiger

    A surname, carried by 4,484 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K260

    Kiger: #7,429 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kiger #7,429, 4,484 people Kiger: #7,429 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kiger #7,429, 4,484 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kiger is more common than 95.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,484 people named Kiger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,855 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,013.

    #7,429
    rank among US surnames
    4,484
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,640)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,420DiGiovanni4,48768,809
    #7,421Tower4,48668,824
    #7,426Nealy4,48568,840
    #7,429Kiger4,48468,855
    #7,430Marinelli4,48368,870
    #7,431Conard4,48268,886
    #7,433Astorga4,48168,901

    Who is named Kiger

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

    94% of people named Kiger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 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 Kiger

    Kiger has the Soundex code K260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kiger?
    4,484 people in the United States had the surname Kiger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,855 Americans. It ranked 7,429th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kiger?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kiger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kiger getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,013 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,484 in 2010, up 12%.