The Kernen surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 548 people carried this name — #40,016 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is down 6% from 581 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
735 people named Kernen live in Switzerland.
They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 148 people named Kernen.
2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Morbihan.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
86 people named Kernen are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Kernen,
with a public archive behind them.
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Willy Kernen 1929–2009 · association football coach -
Bill Kernen 1948– · baseball player -
Abraham Jakob Kernen 1808–1874
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Joe Kernen 1956– · stockbroker
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Bruno Kernen 1961– · alpine skier
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Benjamin Kernen 1972– · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kernen.
- Kennedy 176,865 · U.S. census
- Kennel 938 · U.S. census
- Keo 3,223 · U.S. census
- Kerber 3,535 · U.S. census
- Kerkhove 131 · U.S. census
- Kern 28,547 · U.S. census
- Kerner 4,001 · U.S. census
- Kesler 6,704 · U.S. census
- Kessel 4,976 · U.S. census
- Kesseler 159 · U.S. census
- Kessler 29,064 · U.S. census
- Kesteloot 246 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Kernen is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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