Wilkins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɪlkɪnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilkins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.7K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.2K
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)
- Sources
- 511 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
58,634 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
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)
Wilkins 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 | #479 | 58,634 | 1 in 5.7K | 59K | Wilkins | 511 |
| GB United Kingdom | #317 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 21K | Wilkins | 272 |
| CA Canada | #582 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Wilkins | 185 |
| AU Australia | #495 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Wilkins | 191 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Wilkins | 23 |
| NZ New Zealand | #292 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Wilkins | 102 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 742 | 1 in 4.6K | 742 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 29 | 1 in 1.9K | 29 | — | 2 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 23 | 1 in 4.4K | 23 | — | 3 |
58,634 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Wilkins 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, ‘son of Wilkin’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, M. H. R, British physicist (Nobel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- John Wilkinsb. 1614GBSecretary of the Royal Society and Bishop of Chester
- William Wilkinsb. 1778GBEnglish architect, classical scholar and archaeologist (1778–1839)
- William Wilkinsb. 1779USUnited States federal judge (1779-1865)
- George Hubert Wilkinsb. 1888AUAustralian polar explorer (1888-1958)
- Roy Wilkinsb. 1901USAfrican-American NAACP leader
- Maurice Wilkinsb. 1916GBNew Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
- Mac Wilkinsb. 1950USAmerican athletics competitor
- Ray Wilkinsb. 1956GBEnglish footballer and manager (1956-2018)
- Dominique Wilkinsb. 1960USAmerican basketball player (born 1960)
- Gerald Wilkinsb. 1963USAmerican basketball player (born 1963)
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)
Attested in 46 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 59K | #570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 56K | #532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 56K | #586 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 21K | #344 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 742 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 29 | #153 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 23 | #239 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Wilkins mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wilkins?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪlkɪnz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wilkins have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 59 thousand people named Wilkins, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilkins.
- Where is Wilkins most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wilkins is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wilkins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 58,634 people named Wilkins in 2010, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Wilkins compared with other names?
- In the United States, Wilkins is the 479th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilkinsThe 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, “Wilkins” — the 479th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.