The surname Kinnaird
A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,390 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex K563
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
A Scottish habitational surname, from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head”) + aird (“summit, peak”).
Kinnaird 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 1,390 people named Kinnaird in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,425.
Who is named Kinnaird
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Kinnaird identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
- Two or more races 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
Kinnaird has the Soundex code K563, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K563.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Kinnaird come from?
- A Scottish habitational surname, from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head”) + aird (“summit, peak”).
- How common is the surname Kinnaird?
- 1,390 people in the United States had the surname Kinnaird in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. It ranked 19,441st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kinnaird?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Kinnaird identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Kinnaird?
- Kinnaird is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Kinnaird getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,425 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,390 in 2010, down 2.5%.
- What are other spellings of Kinnaird?
- Kinard.