Keyes

At the 2020 census, 15,967 Americans bore the surname Keyes — 2,222nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,700.

By the numbers

People: 15,967
Rank: 2,222nd
How common: 1 in 18,700
Per 100,000: 5.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.9%
Black, not Hispanic 24.2%
Hispanic or Latino 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Keyes

Daniel Keyes (1927–2014)American author
Irwin Keyes (1952–2015)American character actor
Evelyn Keyes (1916–2008)American film actress
Marian Keyes (born 1963)Irish writer
Alan Keyes (born 1950)American politician
Israel Keyes (1978–2012)American serial killer
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes (1872–1945)Royal Navy officer

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

Surnames like Keyes

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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.