Kittle Surname
Approximately 6,303 people bear this surname
Kittle Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Kettle.' Ketel, Ketil, Cytel, or Chetel, the sacrificial cauldron of northern mythology. A large number of surnames are founded on Kettle and its compounds; v. Chettle, Oskettle, Arkettle, Grimkettle, Steinkettle, Wulfkettle; also their abbreviations, such as Kell and Chell, Oskell, Arkell, Thurkle, &c.
Read More About This SurnameKittle Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5,306 | 1:68,311 | 7,942 |
| England | 465 | 1:119,824 | 12,145 |
| Canada | 225 | 1:163,758 | 16,499 |
| Australia | 114 | 1:236,804 | 22,158 |
| Nicaragua | 64 | 1:94,080 | 1,835 |
| Northern Ireland | 55 | 1:33,546 | 3,341 |
| Wales | 17 | 1:182,031 | 12,022 |
| New Zealand | 15 | 1:301,888 | 25,890 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 8 | 1:553,733 | 17,655 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 311 | 1:78,377 | 8,472 |
| Wales | 16 | 1:98,026 | 4,293 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,122 | 1:44,758 | 5,179 |
Kittle (21) may also be a first name.
Kittle Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Kettle.' Ketel, Ketil, Cytel, or Chetel, the sacrificial cauldron of northern mythology. A large number of surnames are founded on Kettle and its compounds; v. Chettle, Oskettle, Arkettle, Grimkettle, Steinkettle, Wulfkettle; also their abbreviations, such as Kell and Chell, Oskell, Arkell, Thurkle, &c.
Ketil, son of Tostig: Freeman, Norman Conq.
The father of William of Lancaster, baron of Kendel, was Gilbert, the son of Ketelt the son of Eldred, the son of Ivo de Taillebois (of Domesday): West's Ant. of Fumess.
'Alan, son of Ketell, gave one-half of Kinemund.' Revenues of the Priory of Contshead: ibid.
Emma fil. Ketel, Cambridgeshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Kettle le Mercer, Cambridgeshire ibid.
Reyner Ketel, Norfolk, ibid.
Robert fil. Retell. Placitorum in domo capitulari Westmonasteriensi.
Willelmus Ketyll, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Thomas Ketill, 1370: ibid.
1582-3. Edmund Kettle, or Kettell, Worcestershire, Register of the University of Oxford.
1583. Christopher Kettell, Hertfordshire.: ibid.
1612. Robert Vincent and Alice Kettle: Marriage Lic. (London).
1700. Baptised — Deborah, d. Henry Kettle: St. James, Clerkenwell.
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Kettle' (q.v).
'Robert Ketyll, or Kyttell, sup. for B.A., April, 1513': Register of the University of Oxford.
1608. Buried — an abortive, the sonne of Francis Scotte, the sonne-in-law to Edward Kittle, dwellinge in Cornhill: St. Peter, Cornhill.
1676. Richard Small and Kittle:
Marriage Alleg. (Canterbury).
Ketill is an ON. personal name (Old West Scandinavian Ketill, Old Danish, Ketil), and until recently was one of the four commonest surnames in Iceland. The surname Kettle though not so common as it once was in Fife is still met with there. "Kettles were weavers at Muthill, Perthshire, and gun-makers at Doune in the same county" in the eighteenth century (Sc. Ant., IV, p. 113). The name of the gun-makers is spelled Kettell and Caddell, and they were probably relations of the Kettells, weavers in Muthill (ibid., VIII, p. 187). Ketell de Perth was burgess there in the reign of Alexander II (Scon, p. 62). James filius Ketel witnessed a composition between the Priory of May and Duncan de Inchesireth (now Inchyra), c. 1250 (May, 38). Gelis Kettill appears in parish of Nesting, Shetland, 1576 (Oppressions, p. 21), and James Kettle in Noorhead of Cultmalindie, 1689 (Dunkeld).
= Kettle, Kettell, q.v.
1. A parish in Fifeshire. 2. The personal name Chetell occurring in Domesday; in H.R. Ketel, Ketyl.
Local. From the parish of Kettle, in Fifeshire, Scotland.
From Kettle co. Fife. There are however the surnames Kettel, Ketell, and Kittle. Chetell occurs as a surname in Domesday; and in H.R. are found Ketel and Ketyl; and in old writings Catul or Katel.
Kittle Demographics
Kittle Religious Adherence
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Religious Adherence
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Kittle Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kittle Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kittle is found most frequently in The United States. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kittle? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kittle is the 77,592nd most frequently held last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 1,156,203 people. The last name is mostly found in The Americas, where 76 percent of Kittle live; 75 percent live in North America and 75 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,368,944th most common first name on earth It is held by 21 people.
It is most frequently used in The United States, where it is held by 5,306 people, or 1 in 68,311. In The United States it is mostly found in: Michigan, where 8 percent live, Georgia, where 7 percent live and West Virginia, where 6 percent live. Beside The United States this last name occurs in 22 countries. It is also common in England, where 7 percent live and Canada, where 4 percent live.
Kittle Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Kittle has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Kittle surname increased 473 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 150 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 106 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 87 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Kittle Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is primarily Anglican (50%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Kittle last name are 17.89% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 64.66% registered with the political party.
The amount Kittle earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 8.95% less than the national average, earning $39,289 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.43% less than the national average, earning $49,470 CAD per year.
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