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The AIKEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,014 2755 0.004 44
United States (1880 census) 3,885 1575 0.008 78
Change since 1880 +8129 -1180 -0.004 -34
Other Countries
Australia 359 4416 0.002 22
United Kingdom 1,201 4511 0.003 26
Top States for AIKEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,728 334 0.043 431
North Carolina 917 1341 0.011 114
New York 863 2139 0.005 45
Georgia 787 1332 0.010 96
Florida 733 2801 0.005 46
Top States for AIKEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,728 334 0.043 431
Vermont 184 510 0.030 302
Delaware 117 1183 0.015 149
New Hampshire 165 1172 0.013 134
North Carolina 917 1341 0.011 114

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

Classification and Origin of AIKEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the AIKEN 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 AIKEN 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 AIKEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 190 1.58
White (Hispanic) 145 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 103 0.86
Asian/Pacific 58 0.48
White (Caucasian) 8,212 68.35
Black/African American 3,306 27.52

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

Meaning of AIKEN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of AIKEN.

Similar names to AIKEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AIKEN.

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 AIKEN

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