The surname Simkins
A patronymic surname, carried by 2,819 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S525
Origin
Patronymic from Simkin.
Simkins 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 2,819 people named Simkins in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,523 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,695.
Who is named Simkins
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Simkins identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Simkins has the Soundex code S525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S525.
Questions
- Where does the surname Simkins come from?
- Patronymic from Simkin.
- How common is the surname Simkins?
- 2,819 people in the United States had the surname Simkins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,523 Americans. It ranked 11,216th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Simkins?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Simkins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Simkins?
- Simkins is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Simkins getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,695 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,819 in 2010, up 4.6%.
- What are other spellings of Simkins?
- Simpkins.