Kirkham

At the 2020 census, 3,962 Americans bore the surname Kirkham — 8,022nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 75,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,962
Rank: 8,022nd
How common: 1 in 75,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From a Scandinvianized form of Old English ċiriċe (“church”) + hām (“homestead”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kirkham

Shaun Kirkham (born 1992)New Zealand rower
Fred Kirkham (1937–2007)Australian rower

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

Surnames like Kirkham

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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.