How common is the surname Kinder?

10,539 people in the United States had the surname Kinder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,296 Americans. It ranked 3,391st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Kinder getting more or less common?

More common. 10,083 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,539 in 2010, up 4.5%.

The surname Kinder

A surname, carried by 10,539 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kinder is more common than 97.9% of them.

Origin

Uncertain but probably of Proto-Brythonic origin. The name may be equivalent to Welsh cain (“elegant, fair”) or cant (“border, rim”) + dwfr (“water”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 10,539 people named Kinder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,296 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,083.

#3,391

rank among US surnames

10,539

people in 2010

3.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,253)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,382	Phelan	10,562	29,232
#3,383	Charlton	10,555	29,251
#3,385	Vail	10,554	29,254
#3,386	Schrock	10,549	29,268
#3,387	Iglesias	10,546	29,276
#3,389	Bayer	10,544	29,282
#3,390	Sager	10,541	29,290

Who is named Kinder

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

90% of people named Kinder identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kinder

Kinder has the Soundex code K536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K536.

Questions

Where does the surname Kinder come from?: Uncertain but probably of Proto-Brythonic origin. The name may be equivalent to Welsh cain (“elegant, fair”) or cant (“border, rim”) + dwfr (“water”).
How common is the surname Kinder?: 10,539 people in the United States had the surname Kinder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,296 Americans. It ranked 3,391st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kinder?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Kinder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Kinder getting more or less common?: More common. 10,083 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,539 in 2010, up 4.5%.