Kearns

14,053 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kearns in the 2020 census, making it the 2,502nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,300.

By the numbers

People: 14,053
Rank: 2,502nd
How common: 1 in 21,300
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Céirín, a personal name derived from a diminutive of ciar (“dark”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kearns

Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)American biographer and historian
Thomas Kearns (1862–1918)United States Senator from Utah
Joseph Kearns (1907–1962)American actor

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

Surnames like Kearns

Try it on yourself

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.