How common is the surname Kinnear?

1,998 people in the United States had the surname Kinnear in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 154,527 Americans. It ranked 14,834th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Kinnear?

Greg Kinnear, American actor, followed by Roy Kinnear.

Where is the surname Kinnear most common?

Wikidata records people named Kinnear in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Kinnear getting more or less common?

More common. 1,625 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,998 in 2010, up 23%.

The surname Kinnear

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,998 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kinnear is more common than 90.9% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Scottish habitational surname from Kinneir, in Fife, apparently from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“headland”) + iar (“west”).

Kinnear 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 1,998 people named Kinnear in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 154,527 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,625.

#14,834

rank among US surnames

1,998

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+23%

change since 2000 (was #16,326)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,827	Caudell	1,999	154,450
#14,834	Dames	1,998	154,527
#14,838	Degen	1,997	154,605
#14,842	Pfau	1,996	154,682

Who is named Kinnear

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

86% of people named Kinnear identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.5%
Two or more races 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Kinnears

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Greg Kinnear
American actor, born 1963
Roy Kinnear
British actor (1934–1988)

Notable Kinnears come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kinnear

Kinnear has the Soundex code K560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K560.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kinnear come from?: Scottish habitational surname from Kinneir, in Fife, apparently from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“headland”) + iar (“west”).
How common is the surname Kinnear?: 1,998 people in the United States had the surname Kinnear in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 154,527 Americans. It ranked 14,834th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kinnear?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Kinnear identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Kinnear?: Greg Kinnear, American actor, followed by Roy Kinnear.
Where is the surname Kinnear most common?: Wikidata records people named Kinnear in the United States and the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Kinnear?: Kinnear is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Kinnear getting more or less common?: More common. 1,625 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,998 in 2010, up 23%.