How common is the surname Killough?

2,650 people in the United States had the surname Killough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,508 Americans. It ranked 11,810th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Killough?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Killough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Killough getting more or less common?

More common. 2,644 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,650 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Killough

A surname, carried by 2,650 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Killough is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,650 people named Killough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,508 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,644.

#11,810

rank among US surnames

2,650

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,032)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,801	Feagin	2,653	116,376
#11,804	McEwan	2,652	116,420
#11,807	Woodburn	2,651	116,464
#11,810	Killough	2,650	116,508
#11,815	Inglis	2,649	116,552
#11,818	Nalls	2,648	116,596

Who is named Killough

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

92% of people named Killough identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
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 Killough

Killough has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.

Questions

How common is the surname Killough?: 2,650 people in the United States had the surname Killough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,508 Americans. It ranked 11,810th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Killough?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Killough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Killough getting more or less common?: More common. 2,644 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,650 in 2010, up 0.2%.