How common is the surname Kist?

1,383 people in the United States had the surname Kist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,243 Americans. It ranked 19,527th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kist?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kist getting more or less common?

More common. 1,162 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,383 in 2010, up 19%.

The surname Kist

A surname, carried by 1,383 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K230

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kist is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, named after the town Kist in Würzburg. Also a Westphalian German Low German spelling variant of Kirst.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,383 people named Kist in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,243 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,162.

#19,527

rank among US surnames

1,383

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+19%

change since 2000 (was #21,069)

Who is named Kist

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

93% of people named Kist identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Two or more races 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kist

Kist has the Soundex code K230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K230.

Questions

Where does the surname Kist come from?: From the German surname, named after the town Kist in Würzburg. Also a Westphalian German Low German spelling variant of Kirst.
How common is the surname Kist?: 1,383 people in the United States had the surname Kist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,243 Americans. It ranked 19,527th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kist?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kist getting more or less common?: More common. 1,162 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,383 in 2010, up 19%.