Kemper

Kemper is the 3,541st most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,833 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 30,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,833
Rank: 3,541st
How common: 1 in 30,400
Per 100,000: 3.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.8%
Black, not Hispanic 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Kemper

Ellie Kemper (born 1980)American actress
Edmund Kemper (born 1948)American serial killer
James L. Kemper (1823–1895)Confederate Army general
Dieter Kemper (1937–2018)German cyclist
Boy Kemper (born 1999)association football player
Victor J. Kemper (1927–2023)American cinematographer

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

Surnames like Kemper

Also a first name

Kemper has been given to 1,899 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2009. 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.