Kilburn

Kilburn is the 7,921st most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,019 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 74,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,019
Rank: 7,921st
How common: 1 in 74,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From either the unattested Old English personal name *Cylla or cyline (“kiln”) + burna (“stream, brook”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kilburn

Tom Kilburn (1921–2001)British electrical engineer
Terry Kilburn (born 1926)British actor

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

Surnames like Kilburn

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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.