Kitchen
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kitchen is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), f.
- GHGhana≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 17K
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)
- Record sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
15,170 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 Englishkychyn(measured from records)
- Old Englishcyċen(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*kukinā(measured from records)
- Late Latincocīna(measured from records)
- Late Latin rootcoquō“to cook”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*pekʷ-“to cook“to cook, become ripe”(measured from records)
From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).
Cited for this meaning 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kitchen 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 | 15,170 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Kitchen | 375 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Kitchen | 183 |
| GH Ghana | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Kitchen | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Kitchen | 129 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Kitchen | 118 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kitchen | 40 |
15,170 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Walter Kitchenb. 1912CACanadian ice hockey player (1912–1988)
- Kenneth A. Kitchenb. 1932GBBritish egyptologist
- Martin Kitchenb. 1936GBBritish-Canadian historian
- Denis Kitchenb. 1946USCartoonist
- Michael Kitchenb. 1948GBEnglish actor and television producer
- Garry Kitchenb. 1958USAmerican programmer
- Gavin Kitchenb. 1964actor
- Jennifer Kitchenb. 1971USAmerican actress
- Anaru Kitchenb. 1984NZNew Zealand cricketer
- Perry Kitchenb. 1992USAmerican soccer player
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,551 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kitchen mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), f… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Kitchen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Kitchen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kitchen.
- How common is the name Kitchen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,170 people named Kitchen in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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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, “Kitchen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.