How rare is the last name Kemper?

9,833 people in the United States have the last name Kemper, about 1 in 30,397. It ranks #3,541 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

KEMPER

#3,541

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,833
About
1 in 30,397
This common or more
54.5%
Who bears it

Of the 9,833 people with the last name Kemper, 86.8% reported their origin as White, 5.4% as Black and 3.9% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Kemper

#3,539 Culpepper · 9,839#3,540 Pfeifer · 9,838#3,542 Wirth · 9,831#3,543 Collado · 9,827

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kemper, most common first.

#32,755 Kempfer · 751#102,571 Kempher · 187#142,049 Kempers · 120#154,182 Kember · 103#155,270 Kempert · 101

Also a first name

As a first name, Kemper ranks #9,726 of 53,615, with 1,412 people. As a baby name it peaked in 2009, with 77 births. See Kemper as a first name

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