Wilkie

6,705 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wilkie in the 2020 census, making it the 5,069th most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,705
Rank: 5,069th
How common: 1 in 44,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a Scottish diminutive of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Wilkie

David Wilkie (1785–1841)Scottish painter
David Wilkie (1954–2024)British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
Robert Wilkie (born 1962)10th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

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

Surnames like Wilkie

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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.