Kornegay

Kornegay is the 7,375th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,359 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 68,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,359
Rank: 7,375th
How common: 1 in 68,600
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Americanized spelling of German Kornegger.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 48.3%
Black, not Hispanic 44.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Kornegay

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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.