How common is the surname Kill?

1,221 people in the United States had the surname Kill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 252,863 Americans. It ranked 21,413th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kill?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Kill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Kill getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,294 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,221 in 2010, down 5.6%.

The surname Kill

A surname, carried by 1,221 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kill is more common than 86.8% of them.

Origin

* As a German and Dutch surname, probably shortened from Kilian. * Also as a German surname, from Kyll in the Eifel mountains, from Latin Celbis. * As a Jewish surname, probably from Yiddish קיל (kil, “cool”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,221 people named Kill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 252,863 Americans. That is down 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,294.

#21,413

rank among US surnames

1,221

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-5.6%

change since 2000 (was #19,366)

Who is named Kill

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

91% of people named Kill identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
American Indian and Alaska Native 3.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kill

Kill has the Soundex code K400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K400.

Questions

Where does the surname Kill come from?: * As a German and Dutch surname, probably shortened from Kilian. * Also as a German surname, from Kyll in the Eifel mountains, from Latin Celbis. * As a Jewish surname, probably from Yiddish קיל (kil, “cool”).
How common is the surname Kill?: 1,221 people in the United States had the surname Kill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 252,863 Americans. It ranked 21,413th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kill?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Kill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Kill getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,294 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,221 in 2010, down 5.6%.