Last Name KENNINGTON

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: Of Kennington, a parish in county Kent, two miles from Ashford; also a district in the parish of Lambeth, London. Also a parish in county Berks, to miles from Oxford.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	16,092 (2000 US census)	24,560 (1990 US census)

Count	1,654 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

96.07%, or 1589 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.42%, or 7 total occurrences, as black,
0.36%, or 6 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.73%, or 12 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.27%, or 21 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.15%, or 19 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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