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The KILGOUR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 451 44821 0 2
United States (1880 census) 168 21853 0 3
Change since 1880 +283 -22968 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 316 4961 0.002 19
United Kingdom 1,175 4610 0.003 26
Top States for KILGOUR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 54 13225 0.001 9
California 42 46636 0.000 1
New York 42 39046 0.000 2
Ohio 34 32478 0.000 3
Florida 33 42291 0.000 2
Top States for KILGOUR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 21 6894 0.002 16
Massachusetts 54 13225 0.001 9
New Hampshire 5 24795 0.000 4
Colorado 15 30209 0.000 3
Arizona 17 27105 0.000 3

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KILGOUR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KILGOUR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KILGOUR in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KILGOUR by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KILGOUR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KILGOUR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KILGOUR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KILGOUR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 430 95.34
Black/African American 8 1.77
White (Hispanic) 6 1.33
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KILGOUR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of KILGOUR in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic. Local) The ancient name of a parish in Fifeshire, Scotland, so called from kill, a church, and gour, a hill--the church on the hill, or surrounded by hills.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


KILGOUR. An old Scottish family, who probably derived their name from a place so called in the parish of Falkland, co. Fife.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to KILGOUR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KILGOUR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KILGOUR

The following words are slight variants of KILGOUR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.