Perkins

Perkins is the 235th most common surname in the United States, shared by 126,147 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,369.

By the numbers

People: 126,147
Rank: 235th
How common: 1 in 2,369
Per 100,000: 42.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.8%
Black, not Hispanic 23.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Perkins

Anthony Perkins (1932–1992)American actor
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer
Carl Perkins (1932–1998)American guitarist
Elizabeth Perkins (born 1960)American actress
Frances Perkins (1880–1965)Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
John Perkins (born 1945)American author
Millie Perkins (born 1938)American actress
Kendrick Perkins (born 1984)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Perkins

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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.