Elkins

At the 2020 census, 23,416 Americans bore the surname Elkins — 1,487th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,800.

By the numbers

People: 23,416
Rank: 1,487th
How common: 1 in 12,800
Per 100,000: 7.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Elkins

Stephen Benton Elkins (1841–1911)Union United States Army officer
Caroline Elkins (born 1969)Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of history studying colonial encounter in Africa during the 20th-century

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

Surnames like Elkins

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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.