Kilman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from Yiddish kil ‘cool’ -I- man ‘man’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɪɫmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kilman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 535K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 722K
- ARArgentina1 in 4.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 535K (inferred from the name graph)
622 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from Yiddish kil ‘cool’ -I- man ‘man’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kilman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 622 | 1 in 535K | 658 | Kilman | 20 |
| PL Poland | 53 | 1 in 722K | 29 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | Kilman | 16 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | Kilman | 21 |
622 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kilman is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Possibly an altered spelling of German Killmann (see Killman).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In tpi, murderer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Max Kilmanb. 1833SESwedish military personnel (1833–1909)
- Buzz Kilmanb. 1944USAmerican actor
- Sato Kilmanb. 1957VUVanuatuan politician
- Ricardo Viverosb. 1975CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Max Kilmanb. 1997GBEnglish association football player (born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 658 | #36,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 657 | #32,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 622 | #36,048 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #71,519 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,227 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #201,032 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kilman mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Yiddish kil ‘cool’ -I- man ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kilman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɪɫmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kilman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 622 people named Kilman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kilman.
- Where is Kilman most common?
- Kilman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 535 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kilman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 622 people named Kilman in 2010, about 1 in 535 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kilmanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kilman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.