Kerchner Surname

225,834th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,799 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Hungary

Kerchner Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kerchner Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,4231:254,71524,153
Brazil1511:1,417,71147,804
Germany1041:774,09157,434
Hungary1011:97,1919,467
Argentina81:5,342,927168,491
Czechia21:5,316,734169,646
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Madagascar11:23,649,8379,420
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4961:101,24710,256

Kerchner (13) may also be a first name.

Kerchner Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kerchner Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kerchner (Russian: Керчнер) is held by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kerchner? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 225,834th most common family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 4,050,887 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 88 percent of Kerchner reside; 79 percent reside in North America and 79 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Kerchner is also the 3,159,357th most frequently occurring forename at a global level It is held by 13 people.

The surname Kerchner is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 1,423 people, or 1 in 254,715. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: Pennsylvania, where 28 percent reside, Illinois, where 11 percent reside and Maryland, where 8 percent reside. Apart from The United States this last name occurs in 14 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 8 percent reside and Germany, where 6 percent reside.

Kerchner Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Kerchner has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Kerchner surname expanded 287 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Kerchner Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Kerchner last name are 12.27% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 59.04% being registered to vote for the party.

Kerchner earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 4.73% more than the national average, earning $45,190 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Kerchner Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kerchner in the Russian language
Керчнерkercner-

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kerchner
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