Kilo Surname
Approximately 11,448 people bear this surname
Kilo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 3,393 | 1:21,774 | 2,751 |
| Tanzania | 1,757 | 1:30,132 | 3,589 |
| Indonesia | 1,056 | 1:125,236 | 12,615 |
| India | 589 | 1:1,302,318 | 51,089 |
| Papua New Guinea | 449 | 1:18,160 | 1,829 |
| Cameroon | 430 | 1:48,300 | 6,319 |
| Nigeria | 400 | 1:442,857 | 22,710 |
| Syria | 378 | 1:51,061 | 2,637 |
| United States | 325 | 1:1,115,258 | 80,547 |
| Lebanon | 293 | 1:19,239 | 2,375 |
| Russia | 284 | 1:507,476 | 46,627 |
| Kenya | 252 | 1:183,254 | 13,801 |
| Saudi Arabia | 239 | 1:129,104 | 17,726 |
| South Africa | 159 | 1:340,740 | 31,565 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Turkey | 135 | 1:576,455 | 31,373 |
| Burkina Faso | 130 | 1:141,170 | 3,724 |
| Liberia | 90 | 1:48,984 | 4,396 |
| Uganda | 87 | 1:448,727 | 26,843 |
| Brazil | 85 | 1:2,518,522 | 76,509 |
| Iraq | 63 | 1:555,899 | 8,855 |
| Solomon Islands | 56 | 1:10,358 | 1,805 |
| Australia | 51 | 1:529,327 | 39,816 |
| Botswana | 50 | 1:43,739 | 8,388 |
| France | 46 | 1:1,443,972 | 140,296 |
| Finland | 42 | 1:130,874 | 12,452 |
| Mexico | 37 | 1:3,354,762 | 24,142 |
| Canada | 35 | 1:1,052,731 | 78,176 |
| Germany | 33 | 1:2,439,559 | 124,421 |
| Pakistan | 32 | 1:5,582,621 | 34,646 |
| Marshall Islands | 32 | 1:1,619 | 398 |
| Ivory Coast | 31 | 1:744,233 | 20,430 |
| Philippines | 30 | 1:3,374,607 | 147,509 |
| Malaysia | 26 | 1:1,134,393 | 49,681 |
| Benin | 24 | 1:430,650 | 30,545 |
| Niger | 23 | 1:834,436 | 19,133 |
| England | 16 | 1:3,482,379 | 114,324 |
| Estonia | 15 | 1:88,120 | 15,474 |
| Lesotho | 14 | 1:145,183 | 12,726 |
| Venezuela | 13 | 1:2,323,391 | 26,733 |
| Austria | 8 | 1:1,064,429 | 75,134 |
| American Samoa | 6 | 1:9,293 | 1,961 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Slovakia | 5 | 1:1,067,290 | 85,393 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 1:3,536,499 | 118,599 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| Belarus | 4 | 1:2,375,265 | 105,497 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| South Korea | 3 | 1:17,080,085 | 2,793 |
| Panama | 2 | 1:1,956,129 | 15,285 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Abkhazia | 1 | 1:242,865 | 5,354 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Grenada | 1 | 1:108,535 | 1,793 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
The alternate forms: Kiló (9) are calculated separately.
Kilo (4,305) may also be a first name.
Kilo Demographics
Average Kilo Salary in
United States
$48,453 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kilo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kilo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kilo (Arabic: كيلوّ, Hindi: किलो, Oriya: କିେଲା, Russian: Кило, Tibetan: ཀིལ་ལོ་) is most common in The DR Congo. It can also occur in the variant forms: Kiló. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kilo? popularity and diffusion
Kilo is the 45,333rd most frequently held surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 636,578 people. The surname Kilo occurs predominantly in Africa, where 61 percent of Kilo are found; 33 percent are found in Central Africa and 33 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 105,439th most commonly used forename globally. It is borne by 4,305 people.
The surname Kilo is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is held by 3,393 people, or 1 in 21,774. Aside from The DR Congo this last name is found in 94 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 15 percent are found and Indonesia, where 9 percent are found.
Kilo Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Kilo has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 2,708 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 320 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Kilo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is chiefly Orthodox (86%) in Russia, Christian (100%) in Kenya, Sunni (94%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (75%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Kilo last name are 4.18% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 57.41% registered with the political party.
The amount Kilo earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 62.45% less than the national average, earning R 89,232 per year; in United States they earn 12.29% more than the national average, earning $48,453 USD per year and in Canada they earn 25.6% more than the national average, earning $62,400 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kilo Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kilo in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀིལ་ལོ་ | killo | - |
| Kilo in the Oriya language | ||
| କିେଲା | kiela | 90.48 |
| କୀେଲା | kiela | 4.76 |
| କିେଳା | kiela | 4.76 |
| Kilo in the Hindi language | ||
| किलो | kilo | 87.59 |
| कीलो | kilo | 11.72 |
| केलो | kelo | 0.69 |
| Kilo in the Russian language | ||
| Кило | kilo | - |
| Kilo in the Arabic language | ||
| كيلوّ | kylw | - |
| كيلو | kylw | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kilo
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