as a Last Name
- 27,677
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Kirkland
Meaning & Origins
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
| 1,092nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 27,677
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Kirkland per capita
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