Kilgour

English

Alternative forms

• Kilgore, Killgore

Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in Fife, from Scottish Gaelic coille (“wood”) + gobhar (“goat”).

Proper noun

Kilgour (plural Kilgours)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kilgour is the 46138^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 462 individuals. Kilgour is most common among White (93.29%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kilgour”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 303.