Elkins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Son of Elkin (i)’
(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.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 14Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18K
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)
- 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
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 in the world
(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 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Elkins | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Elkins | 132 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Elkins | 11 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Elkins | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Elkins | 85 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Elkins | 6 |
| KR South Korea | #730 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Elkins | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | 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)
- Davis Elkinsb. 1876USUnited States Senator from West Virginia (1876-1959)
- Michael Elkinsb. 1917USAmerican news reporter
- Stanley Elkinsb. 1925USAmerican historian (1925–2013)
- Hillard Elkinsb. 1929USTV and film producer (1929–2010)
- Aaron Elkinsb. 1935USAmerican novelist
- Gary Elkinsb. 1966GBEnglish footballer (born 1966)
- Caroline Elkinsb. 1969USPulitzer Prize winner and professor of history studying colonial encounter in Africa during the 20th-century
- Darren Elkinsb. 1984USAmerican martial artist
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 25K | #1,426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 24K | #1,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 23K | #1,487 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- 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].
- In which country does Elkins have the most bearers?
- 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.
- Where is Elkins most common?
- Elkins is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- 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.
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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” — the 730th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.