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    The surname Killingbeck

    A Norse place surname, carried by 626 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex K452

    Killingbeck: #35,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Killingbeck #35,866, 626 people Killingbeck: #35,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Killingbeck #35,866, 626 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Killingbeck is more common than 77.9% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Habitational surname from a place near Leeds, most probably named with the Old Norse personal name Killing + bekkr (“brook, creek”).

    Killingbeck is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 626 people named Killingbeck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 493,204 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 589.

    #35,866
    rank among US surnames
    626
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.3%
    change since 2000 (was #35,994)

    Who is named Killingbeck

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

    85% of people named Killingbeck identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Killingbeck

    Killingbeck has the Soundex code K452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K452.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Killingbeck come from?
    Habitational surname from a place near Leeds, most probably named with the Old Norse personal name Killing + bekkr (“brook, creek”).
    How common is the surname Killingbeck?
    626 people in the United States had the surname Killingbeck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 493,204 Americans. It ranked 35,866th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Killingbeck?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Killingbeck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Killingbeck?
    Killingbeck is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Killingbeck getting more or less common?
    More common. 589 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 626 in 2010, up 6.3%.