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The KILLIAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,947 2771 0.004 44
United States (1880 census) 2,702 2251 0.005 54
Change since 1880 +9245 -520 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 142 10378 0.001 9
United Kingdom 272 13553 0.001 6
Top States for KILLIAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,139 1266 0.009 93
North Carolina 1,051 1184 0.013 131
California 762 3993 0.002 22
Texas 733 3189 0.004 35
New York 619 3188 0.003 33
Top States for KILLIAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,051 1184 0.013 131
Idaho 138 1280 0.011 107
Utah 216 1445 0.010 97
Pennsylvania 1,139 1266 0.009 93
Delaware 66 2163 0.008 84

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

Classification and Origin of KILLIAN

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 KILLIAN 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 KILLIAN 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 KILLIAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 429 3.59
White (Hispanic) 188 1.57
Mixed Race 121 1.01
Native American/Alaskan 70 0.59
Asian/Pacific 33 0.28
White (Caucasian) 11,106 92.96

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

Meaning of KILLIAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KILLIAN.

Similar names to KILLIAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KILLIAN.

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 KILLIAN

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