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The KILBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,363 7068 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 798 6557 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +3565 -511 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 533 3026 0.003 33
United Kingdom 2,042 2909 0.004 44
Top States for KILBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 651 1849 0.008 81
Tennessee 408 2123 0.007 72
Virginia 377 2453 0.005 53
Maryland 261 2425 0.005 49
Georgia 254 3556 0.003 31
Top States for KILBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 651 1849 0.008 81
Tennessee 408 2123 0.007 72
Delaware 50 2866 0.006 64
Virginia 377 2453 0.005 53
Maryland 261 2425 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of KILBY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KILBY 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 KILBY 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 KILBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 263 6.03
White (Hispanic) 65 1.49
Mixed Race 38 0.87
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.32
Asian/Pacific 10 0.23
White (Caucasian) 3,973 91.06

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

Meaning of KILBY in historical publications

KILBY. KILLBY. A parish in co. Leicester.

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 KILBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KILBY.

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 KILBY

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