How common is the surname Kone?

1,431 people in the United States had the surname Kone in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,755 Americans. It ranked 19,027th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Kone getting more or less common?

More common. 740 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,431 in 2010, up 93%.

The surname Kone

A surname, carried by 1,431 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kone is more common than 88.3% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname, Americanized from Kohn or Dutch Koen. * As an English and Irish surname, variant of Cone. * As a West African surname, from the Koné clan of the Bambara and Mandinka tribes. Compare Konneh.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,431 people named Kone in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,755 Americans. That is up 93% since 2000, when the Census counted 740.

#19,027

rank among US surnames

1,431

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+93.4%

change since 2000 (was #29,932)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,019	Whitty	1,432	215,604
#19,027	Euceda	1,431	215,755

Who is named Kone

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

71% of people named Kone identified as Black (not Hispanic), 22% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Black (not Hispanic) 71%
White (not Hispanic) 22%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.0%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kone

Kone has the Soundex code K500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K500.

Questions

Where does the surname Kone come from?: * As a German surname, Americanized from Kohn or Dutch Koen. * As an English and Irish surname, variant of Cone. * As a West African surname, from the Koné clan of the Bambara and Mandinka tribes. Compare Konneh.
How common is the surname Kone?: 1,431 people in the United States had the surname Kone in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,755 Americans. It ranked 19,027th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kone?: In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Kone identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 22% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Kone getting more or less common?: More common. 740 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,431 in 2010, up 93%.