Calkins
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Calkins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 36K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 64K
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
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
9,146 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Calkins 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 | 9,146 | 1 in 36K | 9.1K | Calkins | 374 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Calkins | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Calkins | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Calkins | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Calkins | 40 |
| SG Singapore | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Calkins | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Calkins | 2 |
| AX Åland Islands | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Calkins | 2 |
9,146 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William H. Calkinsb. 1842USAmerican politician (1842–1894)
- William Wirt Calkinsb. 1842botanist and mycologist (1842-1914)
- Mary Whiton Calkinsb. 1863USAmerican philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)
- Gary Nathan Calkinsb. 1869USAmerican biologist
- Irving Calkinsb. 1875USAmerican physician and sport shooter (1875–1958)
- Helen Calkinsb. 1893USAmerican mathematician (1893-1970)
- Richard Calkinsb. 1894USAmerican comic strip artist who drew Buck Rogers
- Blaine Calkinsb. 1968CACanadian politician
- Buzz Calkinsb. 1971USAmerican racing driver
- Susanna Calkinsb. 1971USAmerican mystery writer
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.1K | #3,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.8K | #3,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.5K | #4,052 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Calkins have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Calkins, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calkins.
- How common is the name Calkins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,146 people named Calkins in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calkinsThe 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, “Calkins”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.