Kilmer

At the 2020 census, 5,197 Americans bore the surname Kilmer — 6,299th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,197
Rank: 6,299th
How common: 1 in 57,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kilmer

Val Kilmer (1959–2025)American actor
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
Jack Kilmer (born 1995)American actor
Derek Kilmer (born 1974)American politician

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

Surnames like Kilmer

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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.