The history of your name

The LARKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,017 5329 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 2,812 2171 0.006 56
Change since 1880 +3205 -3158 -0.004 -34
Other Countries
Australia 543 2977 0.003 33
United Kingdom 1,013 5220 0.002 22
Top States for LARKINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 503 2969 0.004 44
California 491 6094 0.001 14
Florida 491 4422 0.003 31
Michigan 450 2753 0.005 45
Tennessee 356 2445 0.006 63
Top States for LARKINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 356 2445 0.006 63
Kentucky 205 2676 0.005 51
Michigan 450 2753 0.005 45
Ohio 503 2969 0.004 44
Maryland 217 2963 0.004 41

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

Classification and Origin of LARKINS

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 LARKINS 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 LARKINS 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 LARKINS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 147 2.44
White (Hispanic) 93 1.55
Asian/Pacific 21 0.35
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.35
White (Caucasian) 3,539 58.82
Black/African American 2,196 36.5

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

Meaning of LARKINS in historical publications

From lark, a sweet, shrill, musical bird, and kin, a child. Learcean or Leargan, a sloping, green, side of a hill, near the sea, from Lear, Gaelic, the sea.

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


Similar names to LARKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LARKINS.

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 LARKINS

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