Elkins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Son of Elkin (i)’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɛlkɪnz/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Elkins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 24,902 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- IEIreland≈1 in 13Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 13K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 461 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
24,902 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Elkins
- English:/ˈɛlkɪnz/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Son of Elkin (i)’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Elkins is found
(measured from records)Elkins 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 | — | 24,902 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Elkins | 461 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Elkins | 132 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Elkins | 85 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Elkins | 86 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Elkins | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Elkins | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Elkins | 7 |
| KR South Korea | #730 | — | — | — | Elkins | 2 |
24,902 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)- Stephen Benton Elkinsb. 1841USUnion United States Army officer (1841-1911)
- Eleanor Elkins Widenerb. 1861USAmerican heiress (1861–1937)
- Hillard Elkinsb. 1929USTV and film producer (1929–2010)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elkins mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Son of Elkin (i)’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Elkins?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Elkins, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elkins. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How do you pronounce Elkins?
- In English /ˈɛlkɪnz/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Elkins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,902 people named Elkins in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Elkins compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Elkins is the 730th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elkins?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elkinsThe 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, “Elkins” — ranked 1356th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.