Parkins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname transferred from the given name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Parkins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 124K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 243K
- NONorway1 in 547K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
2,679 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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)
A surname transferred from the given name.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Parkins 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 | 2,679 | 1 in 124K | 2.7K | Parkins | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 21 | 1 in 243K | 21 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
2,679 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- John Parkinsb. 1571English merchant and politician
- William H. Parkinsb. 1836USAmerican architect
- Count Lasherb. 1926JMnot in their usual nameJamaican singer
- Barbara Parkinsb. 1942CACanadian actress
- David Parkinsb. 1955GBBritish cartoonist, comics artist, and book illustrator
- Zeena Parkinsb. 1956USAmerican musician
- Yizzyb. 1999GBnot in their usual nameBritish grime MC
- Sara Parkinsb. 2000USAmerican violinist
- George ParkinsEnglish MP
- Richard Parkins(?bef.1539-1603) of Bunny, Notts
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,158 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #11,755 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 21 | #3,535 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #54,957 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,217 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #82,497 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Parkins mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname transferred from the given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Parkins have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Parkins, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled parkins.
- Where is Parkins most common?
- Parkins is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 124 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Parkins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,679 people named Parkins in 2010, about 1 in 124 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/parkinsThe 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, “Parkins”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.