How common is the surname Lykins?

4,552 people in the United States had the surname Lykins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,826 Americans. It ranked 7,328th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lykins?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lykins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lykins getting more or less common?

More common. 4,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,552 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Lykins

A surname, carried by 4,552 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L252

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lykins is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

Variant spelling of Likens.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,552 people named Lykins in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,826 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,392.

#7,328

rank among US surnames

4,552

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #7,034)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,319	Raby	4,559	67,722
#7,320	Blades	4,558	67,737
#7,322	Cyrus	4,557	67,752
#7,323	Hunley	4,556	67,767
#7,324	Hamman	4,555	67,782
#7,325	Hannigan	4,554	67,797
#7,327	Jessen	4,553	67,811

Who is named Lykins

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Lykins identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lykins

Likens

Lykins has the Soundex code L252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L252.

Questions

Where does the surname Lykins come from?: Variant spelling of Likens.
How common is the surname Lykins?: 4,552 people in the United States had the surname Lykins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,826 Americans. It ranked 7,328th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lykins?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lykins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lykins getting more or less common?: More common. 4,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,552 in 2010, up 3.6%.