How common is the surname Kinney?

31,558 people in the United States had the surname Kinney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,783 Americans. It ranked 1,113th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Kinney?

Kinney is /ˈkɪni/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Kinney getting more or less common?

More common. 30,956 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,558 in 2010, up 1.9%.

What are other spellings of Kinney?

Kenna, Kinna, Kenny, Kenney and Kinnie.

The surname Kinney

A surname, carried by 31,558 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈkɪni/ 2 syllables Soundex K500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kinney is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 31,558 people named Kinney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,783 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 30,956.

#1,113

rank among US surnames

31,558

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,032)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,104	Valle	31,716	9,735
#1,105	Marino	31,687	9,744
#1,106	Hong	31,670	9,749
#1,107	Springer	31,643	9,757
#1,108	Pickett	31,611	9,767
#1,109	Aguilera	31,581	9,776
#1,110	Carrasco	31,575	9,778

Who is named Kinney

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

85% of people named Kinney identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 85%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Kenna
Kinna
Kenny
Kenney
Kinnie

Surnames that sound like Kinney

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

Questions

How common is the surname Kinney?: 31,558 people in the United States had the surname Kinney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,783 Americans. It ranked 1,113th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kinney?: In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Kinney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Kinney?: Kinney is /ˈkɪni/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Kinney getting more or less common?: More common. 30,956 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,558 in 2010, up 1.9%.
What are other spellings of Kinney?: Kenna, Kinna, Kenny, Kenney and Kinnie.