How common is the surname Kilbourn?

1,379 people in the United States had the surname Kilbourn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. It ranked 19,567th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kilbourn?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kilbourn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kilbourn getting more or less common?

More common. 1,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,379 in 2010, up 8.7%.

The surname Kilbourn

A surname, carried by 1,379 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kilbourn is more common than 87.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,379 people named Kilbourn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,269.

#19,567

rank among US surnames

1,379

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+8.7%

change since 2000 (was #19,657)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,559	Walder	1,380	223,729
#19,567	Kilbourn	1,379	223,891

Who is named Kilbourn

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

94% of people named Kilbourn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kilbourn

Kilbourn has the Soundex code K416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K416.

Questions

How common is the surname Kilbourn?: 1,379 people in the United States had the surname Kilbourn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. It ranked 19,567th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kilbourn?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kilbourn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kilbourn getting more or less common?: More common. 1,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,379 in 2010, up 8.7%.