Hitchins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Hitchins is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname originating as a patronymic.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Hitchins 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 Hitchen, literally ‘little Hick’
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)- Malachy Hitchinsb. 1741GBEnglish astronomer and cleric
- Fortescue Hitchinsb. 1784poet and county historian
- Arthur Hitchinsb. 1913GBEnglish footballer (1913-1975)
- Keith Hitchinsb. 1931USAmerican historian member of the Romanian Academy
- Derek Hitchinsb. 1935GBBritish systems engineer
- Richardson Hitchinsb. 1997USAmerican boxer
- Shawn HitchinsCACanadian comedian, author and actor
- Joseph HitchinsBritish Royal Navy officer, commander in 1836
- Steve HitchinsPeerage person ID=639218
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 396 | #55,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 384 | #51,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 320 | #62,531 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #116,081 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #222,455 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hitchins 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 Hitchins have the most bearers?
- Hitchins is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hitchins?
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About this data
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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, “Hitchins”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.