# Kilgour (surname)

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

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 462 |
| US rank (2010) | 46,138 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 668,280 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.4% (451 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Kilgore, Killgore |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in Fife, from Scottish Gaelic coille (“wood”) + gobhar (“goat”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kilgour 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Kilgour in the United States.

## People named Kilgour

- Fred Kilgour, American librarian (1914-2006)

## Similar surnames

Kilgore, Killgore, Kulkarni, Kolesar, Kilcrease.

## 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.