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The ATKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,285 12458 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 476 10063 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1809 -2395 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 755 2156 0.005 46
United Kingdom 5,070 1238 0.011 110
Top States for ATKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 373 849 0.017 167
California 274 10011 0.001 8
New York 149 13379 0.001 8
Michigan 131 10000 0.001 13
Florida 107 16701 0.001 7
Top States for ATKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 373 849 0.017 167
Nevada 77 3235 0.004 39
Oregon 83 5478 0.002 24
Idaho 28 6710 0.002 22
Rhode Island 15 10110 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of ATKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 106 4.64
White (Hispanic) 28 1.23
Mixed Race 26 1.14
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.88
Asian/Pacific 7 0.31
White (Caucasian) 2,098 91.82

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

Meaning of ATKIN in historical publications

ATKIN. ATKINS. ATKINSON. See

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 ATKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATKIN.

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 ATKIN

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