How common is the surname Gilmour?

2,625 people in the United States had the surname Gilmour in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,617 Americans. It ranked 11,926th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gilmour?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gilmour identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Gilmour?

Kirsty Gilmour, badminton player, followed by Charlie Gilmour.

Where is the surname Gilmour most common?

Wikidata records people named Gilmour in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States.

Is the surname Gilmour getting more or less common?

More common. 2,621 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,625 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Gilmour

A Scottish Gaelic occupational surname, carried by 2,625 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G456

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gilmour is more common than 92.6% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Variant of Gilmore, from Scottish Gaelic gille (“servant lad”) + Moire (“Mary mother of Jesus”).

Gilmour is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,625 people named Gilmour in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,617 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,621.

#11,926

rank among US surnames

2,625

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,113)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,919	Karsten	2,627	117,528
#11,925	Festa	2,626	117,573
#11,926	Brass	2,625	117,617
#11,928	Polansky	2,624	117,662
#11,932	Kamal	2,623	117,707
#11,933	Ballance	2,622	117,752

Who is named Gilmour

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Gilmour identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Gilmours

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Kirsty Gilmour
Badminton player, born 1993
Charlie Gilmour
Association football midfielder (born 1999)
Gary Gilmour
Australian cricketer (1951-2014)
Elizabeth Smart
American activist, born 1987

Notable Gilmours come mostly from the United Kingdom (2), Australia (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gilmour

Gilmour has the Soundex code G456, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G456.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Gilmour come from?: Variant of Gilmore, from Scottish Gaelic gille (“servant lad”) + Moire (“Mary mother of Jesus”).
How common is the surname Gilmour?: 2,625 people in the United States had the surname Gilmour in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,617 Americans. It ranked 11,926th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gilmour?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Gilmour identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Gilmour?: Kirsty Gilmour, badminton player, followed by Charlie Gilmour.
Where is the surname Gilmour most common?: Wikidata records people named Gilmour in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States.
What type of surname is Gilmour?: Gilmour is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Gilmour getting more or less common?: More common. 2,621 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,625 in 2010, up 0.2%.