Kern
At the 2020 census, 27,153 Americans bore the surname Kern — 1,265th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 27,153
- Rank
- 1,265th
- How common
- 1 in 11,000
- Per 100,000
- 9.1
Where the name comes from
The unincorporated community in Missouri is named after Robert Kern. The Kern River is named after Edward Kern.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Kern described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Kern
- Christian Kern (born 1966)Austrian politician and businessman
- Jerome Kern (1885–1945)American composer of musical theater and popular music
- Christophe Kern (born 1981)road bicycle racer
- Peter Kern (1949–2015)Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (1833–1917)Dutch linguist and orientalist
- Julia Kern (born 1997)cross-country skier from USA
- Olga Kern (born 1975)Russian pianist
- Anna Kern (1800–1879)19th-century Russian socialite and memoirist
People named Kern with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Kern
Also a first name
Kern has been given to 744 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1952. 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.