The surname Kite
A surname, carried by 5,457 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex K300
Origin
* As an English surname, from the noun kite (“bird of prey”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Keith. * Also as an English surname, from placenames derived from Old English cȳte (“hut, cottage”).
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,457 people named Kite in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,578 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,962.
Who is named Kite
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Kite identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Kite has the Soundex code K300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K300.
Questions
- Where does the surname Kite come from?
- * As an English surname, from the noun kite (“bird of prey”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Keith. * Also as an English surname, from placenames derived from Old English cȳte (“hut, cottage”).
- How common is the surname Kite?
- 5,457 people in the United States had the surname Kite in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,578 Americans. It ranked 6,258th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kite?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Kite identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Kite getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,962 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,457 in 2010, up 10%.