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The surname Killingsworth

A surname, carried by 4,686 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex K452

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Killingsworth is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

Variant of Killingworth.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,686 people named Killingsworth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,887 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,582.

#7,135
rank among US surnames
4,686
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+2.3%
change since 2000 (was #6,781)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,130Hunnicutt4,69065,831
#7,132Schulman4,68965,845
#7,133Brunelle4,68865,859
#7,135Killingsworth4,68665,887

Who is named Killingsworth

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

77% of people named Killingsworth identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 77%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 2.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Killingsworth

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

Questions

Where does the surname Killingsworth come from?
Variant of Killingworth.
How common is the surname Killingsworth?
4,686 people in the United States had the surname Killingsworth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,887 Americans. It ranked 7,135th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Killingsworth?
In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Killingsworth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Killingsworth getting more or less common?
More common. 4,582 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,686 in 2010, up 2.3%.