Gilmour

Gilmour is the 11,409th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,640 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 113,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,640
Rank: 11,409th
How common: 1 in 113,000
Per 100,000: 0.88

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Variant of Gilmore, 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 Gilmour described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Gilmour

David Gilmour (born 1946)English musician, member of Pink Floyd
Billy Gilmour (born 2001)Scottish association football player
Doug Gilmour (born 1963)Canadian ice hockey player
Kirsty Gilmour (born 1993)badminton player

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

Surnames like Gilmour

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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.