Kennett Surname
Approximately 9,472 people bear this surname
Kennett Surname Definition:
(1) Nick 'le kenet.' N.F. tenet; Middle English tenet, a little dog, a diminutive of ten (v. Kenn). 'Kenet, hownde. cam'cuius': Promptorium Parvulorum 'Kenettys, teroures, butchers houndes, dunghylldogges': Damejulyan Berner's Doctryne, quoted by Way.
Read More About This SurnameKennett Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2,937 | 1:18,971 | 2,719 |
| United States | 2,891 | 1:125,375 | 13,319 |
| Australia | 2,315 | 1:11,661 | 1,712 |
| Canada | 622 | 1:59,237 | 6,992 |
| New Zealand | 268 | 1:16,897 | 2,950 |
| Wales | 154 | 1:20,094 | 2,123 |
| South Africa | 73 | 1:742,160 | 51,964 |
| Scotland | 58 | 1:92,307 | 6,478 |
| Germany | 15 | 1:5,367,031 | 196,901 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| Russia | 9 | 1:16,013,673 | 414,297 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Northern Ireland | 9 | 1:205,004 | 9,958 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 1:1,929,780 | 92,581 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| Isle of Man | 7 | 1:12,260 | 2,387 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Nicaragua | 5 | 1:1,204,218 | 5,298 |
| Spain | 4 | 1:11,688,009 | 116,470 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Jersey | 3 | 1:33,067 | 4,675 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 21 | 1:210,946 | 9,809 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,660 | 1:14,684 | 2,189 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:522,805 | 14,314 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:32,656 | 2,283 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 600 | 1:83,698 | 8,740 |
Kennett (968) may also be a first name.
Kennett Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(1) Nick 'le kenet.' N.F. tenet; Middle English tenet, a little dog, a diminutive of ten (v. Kenn). 'Kenet, hownde. cam'cuius': Promptorium Parvulorum 'Kenettys, teroures, butchers houndes, dunghylldogges': Damejulyan Berner's Doctryne, quoted by Way. 'A kenit;caniculta': Herrtage's Catholicism Anglicum (a) Local, 'of Kennett,' a parish in Cambridgeshire, five miles from Newmarket. Also East and West Kennett, parishes in Wiltshire.
Peter de Kenet, Norfolk, 1337: History of Norfolk.
Nicholas de Kenet, Kent, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.
Thomas de Kenete, Berkshire, ibid.
Peter de Kenet, Wiltshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
William de Kenet, Cambridgeshire, ibid.
1586. William Kennett and Barbara Eglesfield: Marriage Lic. (London).
1596. Richard Clark and Susan Kennett (Essex): ibid.
1789. Married — Peircy Kennett and Catherine Carty: St. George, Hanover Square.
It is manifest that (a) is the chief parent.
(Anglo-French-Latin) = Kenn1 (q.v.) + the French diminutive suff. -et.
The present-day Norman form of this name is Quenet or Quenot.
A Rouen, on dit parmi le peuple quenot pour petit chien; on appelle aussi les chenets [firedogs] des quenots.—Dict. de la Conversation, s.v. ‘chenet’ Moisy.
(Celtic) belonging to Kennet (Wilts), the Domesday Chenete, from the river-name (the source of the Kennet, which apparently named the Roman station Cunet-io, is near.) Peter de Kenet (Wilts).—Hundred Rolls (English) belonging to Kennet(t (Camb.), the Domesday Chenet, which, acc. to Skeat (‘Place-Names of Camb.’, p. 69), is near a river of the same name.
William de Kenet (Camb.).—Hundred Rolls
Kennett Demographics
Average Kennett Salary in
United States
$45,126 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kennett Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kennett Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kennett is found most frequently in England. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kennett? popularity and diffusion
It is the 53,841st most commonly used family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 769,378 people. The last name Kennett occurs mostly in The Americas, where 36 percent of Kennett live; 36 percent live in North America and 36 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 259,154th most common first name at a global level It is held by 968 people.
The last name is most widely held in England, where it is borne by 2,937 people, or 1 in 18,971. In England Kennett is mostly concentrated in: Kent, where 21 percent live, Greater London, where 12 percent live and Hampshire, where 8 percent live. Aside from England it exists in 50 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 31 percent live and Australia, where 24 percent live.
Kennett Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Kennett has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the Kennett surname grew 177 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it grew 482 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Wales it grew 5,133 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 95 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Kennett Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is primarily Methodist (52%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Kennett surname are 19.75% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 66.52% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Kennett earn in different countries varies somewhat. In South Africa they earn 15.5% more than the national average, earning R 274,476 per year; in United States they earn 4.58% more than the national average, earning $45,126 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.77% more than the national average, earning $52,548 CAD per year.
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