Kincaid

17,274 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kincaid in the 2020 census, making it the 2,043rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,300.

By the numbers

People: 17,274
Rank: 2,043rd
How common: 1 in 17,300
Per 100,000: 5.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Scottish habitational surname from a minor place near Lennoxtown, from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head, top”) + càithe (“pass”) or cadha (“quagmire”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.0%
Black, not Hispanic 8.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949)Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer
Aron Kincaid (1940–2011)actor, voice actor

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

Surnames like Kincaid

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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.