Gilmore

Gilmore is the 721st most common surname in the United States, shared by 46,765 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,391.

By the numbers

People: 46,765
Rank: 721st
How common: 1 in 6,391
Per 100,000: 15.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic gille (“servant lad”) + Moire (“Mary mother of Jesus”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gilmore described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.7%
Black, not Hispanic 27.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Gilmore

Jared S. Gilmore (born 2000)American actor
Jim Gilmore (born 1949)American politician and former Governor of Virginia
Charles W. Gilmore (1874–1945)paleontologist
Peter H. Gilmore (born 1956)American author and administrator of the Church of Satan
Gary Gilmore (1940–1977)American murderer
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962)Australian poet
Peter Gilmore (1931–2013)British actor
Matthew Gilmore (born 1972)Belgian cyclist

People named Gilmore with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gilmore

Also a first name

Gilmore has been given to 753 American babies as a first name since 1902, peaking in 1914. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.