The surname Kinghorn
A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,146 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex K526
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
From Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head; height”) + gronna (“bog”); the placename later developed to Kinghorn due to folk etymology.
Kinghorn 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 1,146 people named Kinghorn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,411 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,004.
Who is named Kinghorn
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Kinghorn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Kinghorn has the Soundex code K526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K526.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Kinghorn come from?
- From Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head; height”) + gronna (“bog”); the placename later developed to Kinghorn due to folk etymology.
- How common is the surname Kinghorn?
- 1,146 people in the United States had the surname Kinghorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,411 Americans. It ranked 22,450th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kinghorn?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kinghorn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Kinghorn?
- Kinghorn is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Kinghorn getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,004 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,146 in 2010, up 14%.