Hankins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hankins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 15K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K
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)
- Sources
- 436 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hankins 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 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Hankins | 5 |
| US United States | 21,532 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Hankins | 436 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Hankins | 126 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Hankins | 75 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Hankins | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hankins | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Hankins | 2 |
| IS Iceland | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Hankins | 2 |
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)
Hankins is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘son of Hankin’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Frank H. Hankinsb. 1877USAmerican sociologist (1877–1970)
- Freeman Hankinsb. 1917USAmerican politician
- Cecil Hankinsb. 1922USAmerican basketball player (1922-2002)
- Terry Hankinsb. 1949USAmerican baseball player (1949-)
- James Hankinsb. 1955USAmerican historian
- Dennis B. Hankinsb. 1959USAmerican diplomat (born 1959)
- Dena Hankinsb. 1975USAmerican writer
- Derek Hankinsb. 1983USAmerican baseball player
- Johnathan Hankinsb. 1992USAmerican football player (born 1992)
- Zach Hankinsb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 22K | #1,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 21K | #1,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,823 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
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 Hankins mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hankins have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Hankins in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hankins.
- How common is the name Hankins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,532 people named Hankins in 2010, about 1 in 15 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/hankinsThe 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, “Hankins”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.