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The KILNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 415 47939 0 1
United States (1880 census) 116 28403 0 2
Change since 1880 +299 -19536 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 306 5114 0.002 19
United Kingdom 1,319 4171 0.003 29
Top States for KILNER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 71 31705 0.000 2
Kentucky 46 7776 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 37 37501 0.000 3
Washington 34 20545 0.001 6
New York 32 54722 0.000 2
Top States for KILNER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 46 7776 0.001 11
Washington 34 20545 0.001 6
Maryland 23 22591 0.000 4
New Hampshire 5 30342 0.000 4
Maine 4 31172 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 KILNER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KILNER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KILNER in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KILNER by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KILNER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 404 97.35
White (Hispanic) 6 1.45
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of KILNER in historical publications

KILNER. One who works at a furnace or kiln.

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 KILNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KILNER.

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 KILNER

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