Keller

At the 2020 census, 94,168 Americans bore the surname Keller — 329th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,174.

By the numbers

People: 94,168
Rank: 329th
How common: 1 in 3,174
Per 100,000: 31.5

Where the name comes from

As a German surname, from Keller (“storehouse”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Keller

Helen Keller (1880–1968)American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar
Gottfried Keller (1819–1890)Swiss poet and writer of German literature
Karin Keller-Sutter (born 1963)Swiss politician
Ska Keller (born 1981)German politician
Kasey Keller (born 1969)American soccer player
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)American physicist, author and feminist
Mary Kenneth Keller (1913–1985)first American woman to receive a PhD in computer science (1913-1985); simultaneously with Irving Tang first American to receive PhD in computer science, nun
Marthe Keller (born 1945)Swiss actress

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

Surnames like Keller

Also a first name

Keller has been given to 4,172 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.

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.