Atkins

At the 2020 census, 49,353 Americans bore the surname Atkins — 674th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,056.

By the numbers

People: 49,353
Rank: 674th
How common: 1 in 6,056
Per 100,000: 16.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.1%
Black, not Hispanic 25.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Atkins

Anna Atkins (1799–1871)English botanist and photographer
Chet Atkins (1924–2001)American guitarist
Eileen Atkins (born 1934)British actress
Peter Atkins (born 1940)British chemist
Tom Atkins (born 1935)American actor
Susan Atkins (1948–2009)American convicted murderer from California
Christopher Atkins (born 1961)actor
Essence Atkins (born 1972)American actress

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

Surnames like Atkins

Atkinson

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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.