Aiken
11,821 people in the United States were counted with the surname Aiken in the 2020 census, making it the 2,976th most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 11,821
- Rank
- 2,976th
- How common
- 1 in 25,300
- Per 100,000
- 4.0
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
From a mostly Irish variant of Adkin and Atkin, diminutives of the given name Adam.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Aiken described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Aiken
- Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973)pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer
- Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)American novelist and poet
- Clay Aiken (born 1978)American singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer
- Liam Aiken (born 1990)American actor
- Joan Aiken (1924–2004)English writer
- George Aiken (1892–1984)American politician
- Frank Aiken (1898–1983)Irish Republican Army commander and politician
People named Aiken with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Aiken
Try it on yourself
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.