Ketchen Surname

356,968th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,017 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Scotland

Ketchen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ketchen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5311:682,59754,262
Canada1571:234,68522,439
Scotland1411:37,9703,633
England1081:515,90832,533
Australia331:818,05251,601
New Zealand211:215,63421,249
Cameroon171:1,221,71073,195
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Scotland931:40,2503,051
England211:1,160,73243,748
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States931:539,98637,316

Ketchen (139) may also be a first name.

Ketchen Last Name Facts

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

The surname Ketchen is carried by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Ketchen? popularity and diffusion

The last name Ketchen is the 356,968th most widespread surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 7,165,729 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 63 percent of Ketchen live; 63 percent live in North America and 63 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 784,558th most commonly used first name world-wide, held by 139 people.

Ketchen is most widespread in The United States, where it is borne by 531 people, or 1 in 682,597. In The United States it is most common in: Massachusetts, where 21 percent reside, Maine, where 8 percent reside and South Carolina, where 7 percent reside. Excluding The United States this surname exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 15 percent reside and Scotland, where 14 percent reside.

Ketchen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Ketchen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Ketchen last name expanded 571 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 152 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in England it expanded 514 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Ketchen Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Ketchen surname are 6.51% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 59.74% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Ketchen earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 9.03% more than the national average, earning $47,044 USD per year and in Canada they earn 27.23% more than the national average, earning $63,214 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 Ketchen
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