Kahl

Kahl is the 6,505th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,015 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 59,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,015
Rank: 6,505th
How common: 1 in 59,600
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

German surname, from the adjective kahl (“bald”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kahl described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Kahl

Milt Kahl (1909–1987)American animator
Helmuth Kahl (1901–1974)modern pentathlete
Eric Kahl (born 2001)Swedish association football player

People named Kahl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kahl

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.