Given name & surname
Kilburn
“kiln”·“stream, brook”
Kilburn is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kilburn is built from elements meaning “kiln” and “stream, brook”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kilburn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1954. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,019 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kilburn’s family of names
In English usage, Kilburn as a surname has a related form in KILBOURNE.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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