Kiefer

10,420 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kiefer in the 2020 census, making it the 3,362nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,700.

By the numbers

People: 10,420
Rank: 3,362nd
How common: 1 in 28,700
Per 100,000: 3.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer (born 1945)German painter and sculptor
Nicolas Kiefer (born 1977)German tennis player
Lee Kiefer (born 1994)American female foil fencer
Adolph Kiefer (1918–2017)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, businessman, chief executive officer
Vinzenz Kiefer (born 1979)German actor
Thomas Kiefer (born 1958)American rower
Severin Kiefer (born 1990)Austrian pair skater

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

Surnames like Kiefer

Also a first name

Kiefer has been given to 1,950 American babies as a first name since 1988, peaking in 1991. See it as a given name.

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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.