How common is the surname Kinser?

5,720 people in the United States had the surname Kinser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 53,976 Americans. It ranked 6,012th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kinser?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kinser identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kinser getting more or less common?

More common. 4,985 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,720 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Kinser

A surname, carried by 5,720 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K526

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kinser is more common than 96.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,720 people named Kinser in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 53,976 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,985.

#6,012

rank among US surnames

5,720

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+14.7%

change since 2000 (was #6,294)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,008	Nestor	5,723	53,948
#6,010	Nicholls	5,722	53,958
#6,011	Walston	5,721	53,967
#6,012	Voorhees	5,720	53,976
#6,015	Scheer	5,719	53,986

Who is named Kinser

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

96% of people named Kinser identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kinser

Kinser has the Soundex code K526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K526.

Questions

How common is the surname Kinser?: 5,720 people in the United States had the surname Kinser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 53,976 Americans. It ranked 6,012th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kinser?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kinser identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kinser getting more or less common?: More common. 4,985 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,720 in 2010, up 15%.