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    The surname Killebrew

    A Cornish surname, carried by 2,892 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex K416

    Killebrew: #10,998 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Killebrew #10,998, 2,892 people Killebrew: #10,998 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Killebrew #10,998, 2,892 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Killebrew is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    Cornish origin

    Variant of Killigrew.

    One of 18 Cornish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,892 people named Killebrew in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,758 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,705.

    #10,998
    rank among US surnames
    2,892
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.9%
    change since 2000 (was #10,816)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,993Chupp2,893106,722
    #10,998Killebrew2,892106,758
    #11,003Charpentier2,891106,795
    #11,007Hipolito2,890106,832

    Who is named Killebrew

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

    69% of people named Killebrew identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Killebrew

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

    Other Cornish surnames

    All 18 Cornish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Killebrew come from?
    Variant of Killigrew.
    How common is the surname Killebrew?
    2,892 people in the United States had the surname Killebrew in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,758 Americans. It ranked 10,998th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Killebrew?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Killebrew identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Killebrew getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,705 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,892 in 2010, up 6.9%.