Aitkin
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval Scottish name Aitken, a pet form of Adam
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aitkin is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- MNMongolia
- RURussia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the medieval Scottish name Aitken, a pet form of Adam
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aitkin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Aiun, Aaiun [Aaiu'n, El]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, town, W Sahara
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George Atherton Aitkenb. 1860GBnot in their usual nameBritish public servant and expert on the Queen Anne period of English literature (1860–1917)
- Don Aitkinb. 1937AUAustralian political scientist
- Murray Aitkinb. 1940AUAustralian statistician
- Sarah Hallnot in their usual nameAmerican artist, scientific illustrator, and writer
- Alexander AitkinBritish Royal Navy officer, lieutenant in 1815
- Alexander AitkinCACanadian surveyor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 131 | #133,930 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 129 | #131,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 124 | #127,186 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aitkin mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval Scottish name Aitken, a pet form of Adam Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Aitkin have the most bearers?
- Aitkin is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Aitkin?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aitkinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aitkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.