The Kimbrough surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 12,034 people carried this name — #2,978 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 24,500 people counted. That is up 7% from 11,290 in 2000.

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In print

Kimbrough in American newspapers,
1905–1910.

Newspaper page from Evening Star carrying the name Kimbrough
Evening Star 1905-12-29
Newspaper page from The Washington Times carrying the name Kimbrough
The Washington Times 1910-06-19
Newspaper page from The Washington Times carrying the name Kimbrough
The Washington Times 1905-12-28

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 25,390 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Kimbrough in Australian newspapers,
1910s–1950s.

28 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Kimbrough. The most, 15, date from the 1950s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 12
New South Wales 7
South Australia 2
Western Australia 2
ACT (Canberra) 1
Tasmania 1
Victoria 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Kimbrough.

Who carried it

People named Kimbrough,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Emily Kimbrough
    Emily Kimbrough 1899–1989 · writer
  • Frank Kimbrough
    Frank Kimbrough 1904–1971 · basketball coach
  • John Kimbrough
    John Kimbrough 1918–2006 · actor
  • Mary Craig Sinclair 1882–1961 · writer
  • Lottie Kimbrough 1900–1928 · singer
  • Larry Kimbrough 1923–2001 · baseball player

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Kimbrough,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States540 records

540 records of the Kimbrough name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 349
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 158
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 9
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 9
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 4
  • Sacramento County historic burials 4
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Obbie D. Kimbrough

    Born 1922 in Mississippi. Enlisted 1942 at Camp Shelby; construction worker from Kemper County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Carver Memorial Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Harold Bruce Kimbrough

    Born 1946; from Batesville, Arkansas. U.S. Marine Corps, pilot ch-46 qualified; killed in action 1970 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record William Kimbrough

    U.S. Army veteran of the Mexican Border campaign. Born 1888, died 1950; buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 540 records for Kimbrough in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Australia1 record

1 record of the Kimbrough name in Australia State Library of Western Australia indexes
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Biographical index David Kimbrough

    Died 1998; obituary published in Western Australia.

    State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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