How common is the surname Killinger?

2,815 people in the United States had the surname Killinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,679 Americans. It ranked 11,228th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Killinger?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Killinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Killinger getting more or less common?

More common. 1,973 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,815 in 2010, up 43%.

The surname Killinger

A surname, carried by 2,815 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex K452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Killinger is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,815 people named Killinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,679 Americans. That is up 43% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,973.

#11,228

rank among US surnames

2,815

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+42.7%

change since 2000 (was #14,022)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,223	Yeary	2,818	109,562
#11,225	Wolfgang	2,817	109,601
#11,226	Rohrbach	2,816	109,640
#11,228	Killinger	2,815	109,679
#11,229	Berthiaume	2,814	109,718
#11,236	Walkup	2,813	109,757

Who is named Killinger

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

95% of people named Killinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%

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 Killinger

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

Questions

How common is the surname Killinger?: 2,815 people in the United States had the surname Killinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,679 Americans. It ranked 11,228th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Killinger?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Killinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Killinger getting more or less common?: More common. 1,973 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,815 in 2010, up 43%.