Aitken

At the 2020 census, 4,169 Americans bore the surname Aitken — 7,655th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,169
Rank: 7,655th
How common: 1 in 71,700
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Scots

Variant of Aitkin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Aitken

Robert Grant Aitken (1864–1951)American astronomer
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964)Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer
Jack Aitken (born 1995)British racing driver
Roy Aitken (born 1958)Scottish footballer
Laurel Aitken (1927–2005)Cuban singer
Spottiswoode Aitken (1868–1933)British-born American actor
Brett Aitken (born 1971)Australian cyclist
John Aitken (1839–1919)Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer

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

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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.