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The surname Kinnison

A surname, carried by 1,851 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex K525

Kinnison: #15,748 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kinnison #15,748, 1,851 people Kinnison: #15,748 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kinnison #15,748, 1,851 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kinnison is more common than 90.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,851 people named Kinnison in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 166,799 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,845.

#15,748
rank among US surnames
1,851
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.3%
change since 2000 (was #14,764)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,743Blossom1,852166,709
#15,748Grondin1,851166,799

Who is named Kinnison

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

92% of people named Kinnison identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kinnison

Kinnison has the Soundex code K525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K525.

Questions

How common is the surname Kinnison?
1,851 people in the United States had the surname Kinnison in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 166,799 Americans. It ranked 15,748th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kinnison?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Kinnison identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Kinnison getting more or less common?
More common. 1,845 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,851 in 2010, up 0.3%.