Atkins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname transferred from the given name meaning "son of Atkin (Adam)"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ætkɪnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Atkins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.1K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.8K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 500 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname transferred from the given name meaning "son of Atkin (Adam)".
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atkins 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Atkins | 11 |
| US United States | #549 | 51,671 | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Atkins | 500 |
| GB United Kingdom | #351 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Atkins | 260 |
| AU Australia | #370 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Atkins | 197 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Atkins | 9 |
| CA Canada | #776 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Atkins | 167 |
| NZ New Zealand | #389 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Atkins | 94 |
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)
Atkins 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, ‘son of Atkin’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Chet US guitarist; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Irish, An English name derived from Adkin, a pet form of Adam. It is well known in Co. Cork where it was established in the seventeenth century. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Chet Atkinsb. 1924USAmerican guitarist (1924–2001)
- Robert Atkinsb. 1930USAmerican cardiologist (1930-2003)
- Eileen Atkinsb. 1934GBBritish actress
- Tom Atkinsb. 1935USAmerican actor
- Susan Atkinsb. 1948USAmerican convicted murderer from California (1948-2009)
- David Atkinsb. 1955AUAustralian director, producer and choreographer
- Christopher Atkinsb. 1961USactor
- Chucky Atkinsb. 1974USAmerican basketball player (born 1974)
- Sharif Atkinsb. 1975USAmerican actor
- Ja Ruleb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper, singer and actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 52K | #662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 50K | #619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 49K | #674 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Atkins mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname transferred from the given name meaning "son of Atkin (Adam)". Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Atkins?
- A machine transcription gives /ætkɪnz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Atkins have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 thousand people named Atkins in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atkins.
- How common is the name Atkins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,671 people named Atkins in 2010, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Atkins compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Atkins is the 351st most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atkinsThe 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, “Atkins” — the 351st most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.