Kirkwood

At the 2020 census, 7,837 Americans bore the surname Kirkwood — 4,378th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 38,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,837
Rank: 4,378th
How common: 1 in 38,100
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English ċiriċe (“church”) + wudu (“wood”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.5%
Black, not Hispanic 28.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kirkwood

Daniel Kirkwood (1814–1895)American astronomer
Langley Kirkwood (born 1973)British actor
James Kirkwood (1876–1963)American actor and film director
Samuel J. Kirkwood (1813–1894)American politician
James Kirkwood, Jr. (1924–1989)American playwright, author and actor
Kyle Kirkwood (born 1998)American racing driver

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

Surnames like Kirkwood

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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.