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The surname Kinyon

A surname, carried by 1,746 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K550

Kinyon: #16,462 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kinyon #16,462, 1,746 people Kinyon: #16,462 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kinyon #16,462, 1,746 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kinyon is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,746 people named Kinyon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,830 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,467.

#16,462
rank among US surnames
1,746
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+19%
change since 2000 (was #17,639)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,457Chisum1,747176,729
#16,462Cieslak1,746176,830
#16,470Denker1,745176,932

Who is named Kinyon

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

90% of people named Kinyon identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kinyon

Kinyon has the Soundex code K550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K550.

Questions

How common is the surname Kinyon?
1,746 people in the United States had the surname Kinyon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,830 Americans. It ranked 16,462nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kinyon?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Kinyon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kinyon getting more or less common?
More common. 1,467 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,746 in 2010, up 19%.