How common is the surname Kimbro?

2,854 people in the United States had the surname Kimbro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,180 Americans. It ranked 11,114th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Kimbro getting more or less common?

More common. 2,750 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,854 in 2010, up 3.8%.

The surname Kimbro

A surname, carried by 2,854 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K516

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kimbro is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,854 people named Kimbro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 108,180 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,750.

#11,114

rank among US surnames

2,854

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.8%

change since 2000 (was #10,674)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,109	Plyler	2,856	108,104
#11,111	Leis	2,855	108,142
#11,114	Loaiza	2,854	108,180
#11,116	Kalb	2,853	108,218
#11,118	Heitz	2,852	108,256
#11,122	Catanzaro	2,851	108,294

Who is named Kimbro

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

75% of people named Kimbro identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 75%
Black (not Hispanic) 19%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kimbro

Kimbro has the Soundex code K516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K516.

Questions

How common is the surname Kimbro?: 2,854 people in the United States had the surname Kimbro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,180 Americans. It ranked 11,114th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kimbro?: In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Kimbro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Kimbro getting more or less common?: More common. 2,750 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,854 in 2010, up 3.8%.