How common is the surname Kincaid?

18,075 people in the United States had the surname Kincaid in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,081 Americans. It ranked 2,000th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Kincaid?

Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer (born 1949), followed by Aron Kincaid.

Where is the surname Kincaid most common?

Wikidata records people named Kincaid in the United States.

How do you pronounce Kincaid?

Kincaid is /kɪnˈkeɪd/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Kincaid getting more or less common?

More common. 17,833 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,075 in 2010, up 1.4%.

What are other spellings of Kincaid?

Kincade, Kincaide, Kingcade, Kinkade, Kinkaid and Kinkead.

The surname Kincaid

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 18,075 people in the United States.

Pronounced /kɪnˈkeɪd/ 2 syllables Soundex K523

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kincaid is more common than 98.8% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Scottish habitational surname from a minor place near Lennoxtown, from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head, top”) + càithe (“pass”) or cadha (“quagmire”).

Kincaid is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 18,075 people named Kincaid in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,081 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,833.

#2,000

rank among US surnames

18,075

people in 2010

6.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #1,852)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,991	Judd	18,110	17,048
#1,992	Barbosa	18,106	17,052
#1,993	Hawley	18,100	17,058
#1,994	Rahman	18,097	17,061
#1,995	Crenshaw	18,096	17,062
#1,996	Lackey	18,082	17,075
#1,997	Varner	18,081	17,076

Who is named Kincaid

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

86% of people named Kincaid identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Kincaids

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jamaica Kincaid
Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer (born 1949)
Aron Kincaid
Actor, voice actor (1940-2011)
Tim Kincaid
American pornographic film director, born 1944
Austin Kincaid
American pornographic actress and model, born 1980
April Hunter
American professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and model, born 1973

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Kincade
Kincaide
Kingcade
Kinkade
Kinkaid
Kinkead

Surnames that sound like Kincaid

Kincaid has the Soundex code K523, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K523.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kincaid come from?: Scottish habitational surname from a minor place near Lennoxtown, from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head, top”) + càithe (“pass”) or cadha (“quagmire”).
How common is the surname Kincaid?: 18,075 people in the United States had the surname Kincaid in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,081 Americans. It ranked 2,000th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kincaid?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Kincaid identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Kincaid?: Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer (born 1949), followed by Aron Kincaid.
Where is the surname Kincaid most common?: Wikidata records people named Kincaid in the United States.
How do you pronounce Kincaid?: Kincaid is /kɪnˈkeɪd/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Kincaid?: Kincaid is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Kincaid getting more or less common?: More common. 17,833 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,075 in 2010, up 1.4%.
What are other spellings of Kincaid?: Kincade, Kincaide, Kingcade, Kinkade, Kinkaid and Kinkead.