Kîdd
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kîdd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): widespread in N England,. (i) nickname from Middle English kidde, kide, kede ‘kid, young deer or goat’.
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.9K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 442 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
33,186 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kidd in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishkidde(measured from records)
- Middle Englishkidde(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): widespread in N England,. (i) nickname from Middle English kidde, kide, kede ‘kid, young deer or goat’. (ii) relationship name, sometimes from a voiced variant of the Middle English personal name Kytte, a pet form of Christopher. See Kitt . (iii) nickname from Middle English kid(de) ‘faggot, bundle of twigs’, presumably for a cutter or seller of faggots; compare Kidder .
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kîdd 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 | #900 | 33,186 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Kidd | 442 |
| GB United Kingdom | #640 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | listed | Kidd | 219 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kidd | 10 |
| CA Canada | #983 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kidd | 173 |
| AU Australia | #682 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Kidd | 184 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Kidd | 19 |
| IE Ireland | #504 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Kidd | 65 |
| NZ New Zealand | #564 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Kidd | 92 |
33,186 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. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kîdd mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): widespread in N England,. (i) nickname from Middle English kidde, kide, kede ‘kid, young deer or goat’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Kîdd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Kîdd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kidd.
- How common is the name Kîdd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,186 people named Kîdd in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Kîdd compared with other names?
- In the United States, Kîdd is the 900th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kîdd” — the 900th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.