Jenkinson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from Jenkin
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Jenkinson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 18K
- IEIreland≈1 in 26Kfew records
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patronymic from Jenkin. Compare Jenkins. The form Jenkinson is rather more common in Lancashire and southern Yorkshire.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jenkinson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Jenkinson | 211 |
| US United States | — | 1,920 | 1 in 173K | 1.9K | Jenkinson | 282 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Jenkinson | 157 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Jenkinson | 32 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Jenkinson | 106 |
| LR Liberia | #370 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Jenkinson | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Jenkinson | 51 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Jenkinson | 56 |
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)Jenkinson is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Son of Jenkin.
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)- Anthony Jenkinsonb. 1529GBEnglish diplomat, traveller and explorer (1529-c.1611)
- Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpoolb. 1727GBBritish politician
- Lady Louisa Herveyb. 1767GBnot in their usual nameBritish noble (1767–1821)
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpoolb. 1770GBPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827
- Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpoolb. 1784GBBritish politician
- William Jenkinsonb. 1892GBEnglish footballer (1892-1967)
- Denis Jenkinsonb. 1920GBEnglish journalist (motorsport)
- Squarepusherb. 1975GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician
- Kate Jenkinsonb. 1981AUAustralian actress
- Carl Jenkinsonb. 1992GBEnglish association football player (born 1992)
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,289 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,969 |
| 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
- Where does the name Jenkinson come from?
- patronymic from Jenkin. Compare Jenkins. The form Jenkinson is rather more common in Lancashire and southern Yorkshire. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Jenkinson mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from Jenkin.
- In which country does Jenkinson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Jenkinson in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jenkinson.
- How common is the name Jenkinson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,920 people named Jenkinson in 2010, about 1 in 173 thousand residents.
- How common is Jenkinson compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Jenkinson is the 370th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jenkinson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jenkinsonThe 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, “Jenkinson” — the 370th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.