Kissinger

At the 2020 census, 4,612 Americans bore the surname Kissinger — 7,022nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 64,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,612
Rank: 7,022nd
How common: 1 in 64,800
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kissinger

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023)American diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977

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

Surnames like Kissinger

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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.