Last Name KANG

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Not available
Origin Korean, Chinese, Central african republic

Rank 1,380 (2000 US census) 2,401 (1990 US census)
Count 23,565 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 4.19%, or 987 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 0.71%, or 167 total occurrences, as black,
  • 92.45%, or 21786 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.07%, or 16 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.12%, or 500 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 0.46%, or 108 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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