Akins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A brave boy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Akins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 19K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 33K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 400 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
17,868 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A brave boy
Sources 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akins counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 17,868 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Akins | 400 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | Akins | 38 |
| GH Ghana | #449 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Akins | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Akins | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Akins | 93 |
| KP North Korea | #909 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Akins | 3 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Akins | 3 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Akins | 3 |
17,868 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Akins is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Brave boy.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Latvian, Dzejnieks, dziesminieks (dažās Vidusāzijas zemēs); savus dzejoļus (improvizācijas rečitatīva formā) skandēja dombras pavadījumā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Thomas Beamish Akinsb. 1809CACanadian lawyer, historian, archivist, and author (1809–1891)
- Zoe Akinsb. 1886USPlaywright, poet, author (1886–1958)
- Claude Akinsb. 1926USAmerican actor (1926-1994)
- Virgil Akinsb. 1928USAmerican boxer (1928-2011)
- Nick Akinsb. 1961USAmerican business
- Sid Akinsb. 1962USAmerican baseball player
- Rhett Akinsb. 1969USAmerican singer and songwriter
- Tony Akinsb. 1980USAmerican basketball player
- Lucas Akinsb. 1989GBEnglish association football player (born 1989)
- Jordan Akinsb. 1992USAmerican football player (born 1992)
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #2,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,960 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Akins mean, and where does it come from?
- A brave boy Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
- In which country does Akins have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Akins, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akins.
- How common is the name Akins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,868 people named Akins in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Akins compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Akins is the 449th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Akins” — the 449th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.