The AITKEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,150	7403	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	66	42117	0	1
Change since 1880	+4084	+34714	+N/A	+14
Other Countries
Australia	2,785	564	0.017	170
United Kingdom	9,484	635	0.021	207

Top States for AITKEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	464	5931	0.001	14
Florida	309	6190	0.002	19
New York	230	8141	0.001	12
Texas	190	9192	0.001	9
Illinois	189	6711	0.002	15
Top States for AITKEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	131	2189	0.006	59
Idaho	65	2710	0.005	50
Vermont	24	3866	0.004	39
Washington DC	20	2745	0.003	35
Colorado	126	4264	0.003	29

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of AITKEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	115	2.77
Black/African American	71	1.71
Native American/Alaskan	46	1.11
Mixed Race	41	0.99
Asian/Pacific	16	0.39
White (Caucasian)	3,861	93.04

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

Similar names to AITKEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AITKEN.

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.