The surname Aikens
A patronymic surname, carried by 4,936 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex A252
Origin
From Aiken + -s.
Aikens is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,936 people named Aikens in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,550 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,421.
Who is named Aikens
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
50% of people named Aikens identified as Black (not Hispanic), 43% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 50%
- White (not Hispanic) 43%
- Two or more races 3.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Aikens has the Soundex code A252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A252.
Questions
- Where does the surname Aikens come from?
- From Aiken + -s.
- How common is the surname Aikens?
- 4,936 people in the United States had the surname Aikens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,550 Americans. It ranked 6,831st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Aikens?
- In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Aikens identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 43% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Aikens?
- Aikens is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Aikens getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,421 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,936 in 2010, up 12%.