Last Name KENYON

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Meaning Local: Of Kenyon, a township in the parish of Winwick, county Lancashire.
'Ceinion,' beautiful; 'Cyndyn,' stubborn, 'Concenn' or 'Kynan,' strong head, powerful, a leader.
Origin English, Welsh, Irish, Belgian

Rank 2,635 (2000 US census) 2,666 (1990 US census)
Count 12,620 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.2%, or 12014 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.08%, or 136 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.53%, or 67 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.69%, or 87 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.26%, or 159 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.24%, or 156 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


American Surnames

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Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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...

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