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    The surname Kimes

    A surname, carried by 3,042 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K520

    Kimes: #10,541 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kimes #10,541, 3,042 people Kimes: #10,541 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kimes #10,541, 3,042 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kimes is more common than 93.5% of them.

    Origin

    Unexplained.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,042 people named Kimes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 101,494 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,683.

    #10,541
    rank among US surnames
    3,042
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.4%
    change since 2000 (was #10,888)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,535Corr3,045101,394
    #10,536Duplessis3,044101,428
    #10,539Brunet3,043101,461
    #10,541Farren3,042101,494
    #10,545Ayoub3,041101,528
    #10,547Garrick3,040101,561
    #10,548Wilkin3,039101,594

    Who is named Kimes

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

    81% of people named Kimes identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kimes

    Kimes has the Soundex code K520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K520.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kimes come from?
    Unexplained.
    How common is the surname Kimes?
    3,042 people in the United States had the surname Kimes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,494 Americans. It ranked 10,541st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kimes?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Kimes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Kimes getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,042 in 2010, up 13%.