Ke

2,763 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ke in the 2020 census, making it the 10,993rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 108,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,763
Rank: 10,993rd
How common: 1 in 108,000
Per 100,000: 0.92

Where the name comes from

From the Chinese surname, from cmn 柯. More at Ke.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 88.7%
White, not Hispanic 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Ke

Jing Ke (died 226 BC)Qin Dynasty attempted assassin
Zhuge Ke (203–253)Eastern Wu general and politician
Sun Ke (born 1989)Chinese footballer
Ke Jie (born 1997)Chinese go player
Shi Ke (born 1993)Chinese footballer

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

Surnames like Ke

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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.