Kessing Surname

596,518th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 522 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Kessing Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kessing Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1991:1,821,402119,204
Germany1321:609,89048,740
Netherlands941:179,65125,733
Australia591:457,55435,515
Israel141:611,26042,949
Denmark91:627,19136,734
Cameroon41:5,192,267135,173
England21:27,859,030389,889
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
France11:66,422,722504,397
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Chad11:13,592,19913,092
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States711:707,30545,577

Kessing (22) may also be a first name.

Kessing Last Name Facts

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

The surname Kessing occurs in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kessing? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 596,518th most numerous family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,960,816 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 46 percent of Kessing reside; 43 percent reside in Western Europe and 43 percent reside in Germanic Europe. It is also the 2,301,746th most commonly occurring first name worldwide It is held by 22 people.

The last name is most common in The United States, where it is held by 199 people, or 1 in 1,821,402. In The United States Kessing is most frequent in: North Carolina, where 13 percent reside, California, where 11 percent reside and Texas, where 10 percent reside. Besides The United States it exists in 15 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 25 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 18 percent reside.

Kessing Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Kessing has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name increased 280 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Kessing Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Kessing last name are 18.68% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 65.45% being registered with the political party.

Kessing earn significantly more than the average income. In United States they earn 33.64% more than the national average, earning $57,665 USD 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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Kessing
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