The Kingery surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,952 people carried this name — #6,811 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 59,500 people counted. That is up 4% from 4,741 in 2000.

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In the first U.S. census, 1790

17 Kingery families were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 105 people lived in those households, 6.2 to a family on average. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Pennsylvania 15
Maryland 1
Virginia 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 248 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Kingery in American newspapers,
1901–1915.

Newspaper page from The Evening Times carrying the name Kingery
The Evening Times 1901-02-16
Newspaper page from The Dawson News carrying the name Kingery
The Dawson News 1915-07-20
Newspaper page from The Dawson News carrying the name Kingery
The Dawson News 1915-07-13

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,400 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Kingery,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Ellsworth Kingery
    Ellsworth Kingery 1929–2022 · American football player
  • Wayne Kingery 1927–2016 · American football player

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Kingery,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States215 records

215 records of the Kingery name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 155
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 46
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 5
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 5
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Earl L. Kingery

    Born 1920 in Ohio. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Thomas Newport, Kentucky; metal worker from Montgomery County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Paul Jay Kingery

    Born 1946; from Chardon, Ohio. U.S. Marine Corps, special radio operator; died in an accident 1968 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Delbert Leroy Kingery

    U.S. Army veteran. Born 1951, died 2000; buried at Rose Hill Burial Park, Hamilton, Ohio.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 215 records for Kingery in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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