Kimball

22,663 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kimball in the 2020 census, making it the 1,542nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,200.

By the numbers

People: 22,663
Rank: 1,542nd
How common: 1 in 13,200
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

From owl Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kimball

Clara Kimball Young (1890–1960)American actress
Bobby Kimball (born 1947)American singer
Ward Kimball (1914–2002)American animator
Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985)President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Cheyenne Kimball (born 1990)American singer-songwriter, guitarist, mandolinist
Charlie Kimball (born 1985)American racing driver
Bruce Kimball (born 1963)diver

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

Surnames like Kimball

Also a first name

Kimball has been given to 2,148 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1954. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.