The ATKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	49,754	619	0.018	184
United States (1880 census)	9,120	659	0.018	182
Change since 1880	+40634	+40	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	4,451	330	0.027	272
United Kingdom	14,953	396	0.033	326

Top States for ATKINS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	3,530	222	0.050	499
Texas	3,355	790	0.016	161
California	3,181	1051	0.009	94
North Carolina	3,109	349	0.039	386
Tennessee	2,878	287	0.051	506
Top States for ATKINS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	2,878	287	0.051	506
Virginia	3,530	222	0.050	499
Alabama	1,931	364	0.043	434
South Carolina	1,643	375	0.041	410
West Virginia	718	362	0.040	397

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

Classification and Origin of ATKINS

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 ATKINS 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 ATKINS 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 ATKINS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	906	1.82
White (Hispanic)	716	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	279	0.56
Asian/Pacific	194	0.39
White (Caucasian)	34,967	70.28
Black/African American	12,692	25.51

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

Similar names to ATKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATKINS.

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.