The Kinard surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,035 people carried this name — #4,990 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 42,000 people counted. That is up 7% from 6,583 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Kinard surname
A variant of Kinnaird.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kinard» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 34 people named Kinard live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Namur.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Kinard in American newspapers,
1903–1918.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 26,631 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Kinard in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1940s.
24 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Kinard. The most, 6, date from the 1870s.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Kinard.
Who carried it
People named Kinard,
with a public archive behind them.
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Billy Kinard 1933–2018 · American football player -
John Kinard 1936–1989 -
Frank Kinard 1914–1985 · coach
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 Kinard,
in the records of 3 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 States394 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 241
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 106
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 24
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 8
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 6
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 3
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
- Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 1
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record Larry Vergess KinardBorn 1946; from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. U.S. Marine Corps, machinegunner; killed in action 1967 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam. Buried at Beverly National Cemetery, New Jersey.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Aberdeen KinardBorn 1907 in Mississippi. Enlisted 1944 at Fort Benning, Georgia; stationary engineer. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1989, buried at Memphis National Cemetery, Tennessee.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record John KinardArrived at New Orleans in 1848 aboard the Sailor Prince from Liverpool, aged 20; laborer. From England; bound for New Orleans.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 394 records for Kinard 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, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Canada1 record
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Example: civil register, 1880 Death record Magdalene KinardDied 1871 in Ritcey's Cove, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
France1 record
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Euphrasie Emilie Gabrielle KinardBorn 1894 in Metz (Moselle); died 1987 in Plaisance-du-Touch (Haute-Garonne).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kinard.
- Kimbrough 12,034 · U.S. census
- Kimmel 10,528 · U.S. census
- Kimmerle 432 · U.S. census
- Kimmich 396 · U.S. census
- Kimura 4,059 · U.S. census
- Kin 1,739 · U.S. census
- Kincaid 18,075 · U.S. census
- Kind 1,574 · U.S. census
- Kindel 1,872 · U.S. census
- Kindelberger 205 · U.S. census
- Kinder 10,539 · U.S. census
- Kindle 4,109 · U.S. census
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