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The ADKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 71,528 408 0.027 265
United States (1880 census) 10,996 541 0.022 220
Change since 1880 +60532 +133 +0.005 +45
Other Countries
Australia 387 4095 0.002 24
United Kingdom 2,152 2774 0.005 47
Top States for ADKINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 10,049 74 0.089 885
West Virginia 8,768 7 0.485 4,849
Kentucky 5,494 66 0.136 1,359
Florida 4,205 465 0.026 263
Virginia 4,189 182 0.059 592
Top States for ADKINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 8,768 7 0.485 4,849
Kentucky 5,494 66 0.136 1,359
Ohio 10,049 74 0.089 885
Delaware 521 201 0.066 665
Virginia 4,189 182 0.059 592

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ADKINS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ADKINS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ADKINS in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ADKINS by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ADKINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ADKINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ADKINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ADKINS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 901 1.26
White (Hispanic) 823 1.15
Native American/Alaskan 622 0.87
Asian/Pacific 200 0.28
White (Caucasian) 63,603 88.92
Black/African American 5,379 7.52

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ADKINS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ADKINS in historical publications

Little Adam, or the son of Adam, from Ad and kins, a diminutive, signifying child, from the German kind, so Wilkins, Tompkins, etc.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


ADKIN. ADKINS. ADKIXSON. A

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ADKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ADKINS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ADKINS

The following words are slight variants of ADKINS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.