How common is the surname Kuehn?

7,181 people in the United States had the surname Kuehn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,995 Americans. It ranked 4,905th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kuehn?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kuehn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kuehn getting more or less common?

More common. 7,139 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,181 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Kuehn

A surname, carried by 7,181 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). Kuehn is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,181 people named Kuehn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,995 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,139.

#4,905

rank among US surnames

7,181

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #4,561)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,900	Sandhu	7,190	42,941
#4,902	Almond	7,188	42,953
#4,903	Hussein	7,182	42,989
#4,905	Kuehn	7,181	42,995

Who is named Kuehn

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

95% of people named Kuehn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kuehn

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

Questions

How common is the surname Kuehn?: 7,181 people in the United States had the surname Kuehn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,995 Americans. It ranked 4,905th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kuehn?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kuehn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kuehn getting more or less common?: More common. 7,139 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,181 in 2010, up 0.6%.