Keys

Keys is the 1,894th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,623 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,000.

By the numbers

People: 18,623
Rank: 1,894th
How common: 1 in 16,000
Per 100,000: 6.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 46.5%
Black, not Hispanic 42.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Keys

Madison Keys (born 1995)US American tennis player
Ancel Keys (1904–2004)American nutritionist
Bobby Keys (1943–2014)American saxophonist
George Keys (born 1959)New Zealand rower

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

Surnames like Keys

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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.