# Kidman (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/kidman/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname originating as an occupation.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 536 |
| US rank (2010) | 40,745 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 576,018 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.5% (544 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From kid + -man, an occupational surname for a goatherd or someone in charge of young livestock.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kidman in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Kidman in Australia.

## People named Kidman

- Nicole Kidman, Australian-American actress, producer, and model (born 1967)

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.