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    The surname Killion

    An Irish surname, carried by 4,960 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K450

    Killion: #6,799 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Killion #6,799, 4,960 people Killion: #6,799 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Killion #6,799, 4,960 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Killion is more common than 95.8% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Killeen.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,960 people named Killion in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,247 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,626.

    #6,799
    rank among US surnames
    4,960
    people in 2010
    1.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.2%
    change since 2000 (was #6,723)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,793Fuhrman4,96562,184
    #6,796Steelman4,96462,197
    #6,798Silvas4,96362,209
    #6,799Hostetter4,96062,247

    Who is named Killion

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

    87% of people named Killion identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Killion

    Killion has the Soundex code K450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K450.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Killion come from?
    Variant of Killeen.
    How common is the surname Killion?
    4,960 people in the United States had the surname Killion in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,247 Americans. It ranked 6,799th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Killion?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Killion identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Killion getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,626 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,960 in 2010, up 7.2%.