Kieny Surname
Approximately 567 people bear this surname
Kieny Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 429 | 1:154,832 | 24,024 |
| United States | 121 | 1:2,995,528 | 175,060 |
| Switzerland | 14 | 1:586,637 | 40,624 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
The alternate forms: Kiény (1) are calculated separately.
Kieny (22) may also be a first name.
Kieny Demographics
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Kieny Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kieny Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kieny is held by more people in France than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Kiény. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kieny? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 559,940th most frequent family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 12,852,815 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 78 percent of Kieny live; 78 percent live in Western Europe and 78 percent live in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 2,301,746th most prevalent first name in the world, held by 22 people.
It is most commonly held in France, where it is borne by 429 people, or 1 in 154,832. In France Kieny is most common in: Grand Est, where 64 percent are found, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 16 percent are found and Occitanie, where 9 percent are found. Without taking into account France Kieny occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 21 percent are found and Switzerland, where 2 percent are found.
Kieny Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Kieny has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Kieny last name rose 1,513 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kieny Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Kieny surname are 35.99% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 82.76% registered with the political party.
Kieny earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 59.98% more than the national average, earning $69,030 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 Kieny
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