Adkins

70,363 people in the United States were counted with the surname Adkins in the 2020 census, making it the 462nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,248.

By the numbers

People: 70,363
Rank: 462nd
How common: 1 in 4,248
Per 100,000: 23.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Adkin, diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Adkins described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.2%
Black, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Adkins

Scott Adkins (born 1976)English actor and martial artist
Derrick Adkins (born 1970)athletics competitor
Nigel Adkins (born 1965)English association football player and manager
Trace Adkins (born 1962)American country music singer and actor
Charles Adkins (1932–1993)American boxer
Seth Adkins (born 1989)American actor
Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949)American chemist
Bennie G. Adkins (1934–2020)United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

People named Adkins with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Adkins

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.