Kerestes Surname

443,594th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 770 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Antigua and Barbuda

Kerestes Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kerestes Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4971:729,29457,260
Romania1171:171,60617,711
Canada551:669,92054,285
Brazil331:6,487,101155,169
Germany191:4,237,129172,669
Australia141:1,928,26488,951
Slovakia111:485,13257,527
Norway41:1,285,57269,185
Sweden41:2,461,689157,534
Croatia31:1,409,53570,997
England21:27,859,030389,889
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Slovenia11:2,487,67531,128
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Tunisia11:610,62630,336
Antigua and Barbuda11:99,1712,137

The alternate forms: Keresteš (534) & Kerestéš (2) are calculated separately.

Kerestes Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kerestes is borne by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Keresteš or Kerestéš. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kerestes? popularity and diffusion

The last name Kerestes is the 443,594th most commonly occurring family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 9,464,345 people. The surname Kerestes is mostly found in The Americas, where 76 percent of Kerestes live; 72 percent live in North America and 72 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The last name is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 497 people, or 1 in 729,294. In The United States Kerestes is mostly found in: Pennsylvania, where 38 percent reside, Illinois, where 11 percent reside and Ohio, where 8 percent reside. Not including The United States this last name is found in 21 countries. It also occurs in Romania, where 15 percent reside and Canada, where 7 percent reside.

Kerestes Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Kerestes surname are 5.1% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 58.33% being registered with the party.

The amount Kerestes earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 0.11% less than the national average, earning $43,102 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.9% more than the national average, earning $50,629 CAD per year.

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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 Kerestes
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