How common is the surname Kistner?

2,701 people in the United States had the surname Kistner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,308 Americans. It ranked 11,614th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kistner?

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

Is the surname Kistner getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,741 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,701 in 2010, down 1.5%.

The surname Kistner

A surname, carried by 2,701 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K235

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kistner is more common than 92.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,701 people named Kistner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,308 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,741.

#11,614

rank among US surnames

2,701

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

-1.5%

change since 2000 (was #10,696)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,608	Coll	2,704	114,181
#11,610	Arocho	2,703	114,223
#11,612	Sangster	2,702	114,266
#11,614	Huie	2,701	114,308
#11,620	Skiba	2,700	114,350
#11,622	Tindell	2,699	114,393

Who is named Kistner

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

96% of people named Kistner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kistner

Kistner has the Soundex code K235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K235.

Questions

How common is the surname Kistner?: 2,701 people in the United States had the surname Kistner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,308 Americans. It ranked 11,614th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kistner?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kistner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kistner getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,741 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,701 in 2010, down 1.5%.