Wilkinson

Wilkinson is the 646th most common surname in the United States, shared by 51,341 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,822.

By the numbers

People: 51,341
Rank: 646th
How common: 1 in 5,822
Per 100,000: 17.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wilkinson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.9%
Black, not Hispanic 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wilkinson

Tom Wilkinson (1948–2023)English actor
Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996)British Nobel laureate in Chemistry
James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986)English mathematician
Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979)English rugby union footballer
Kendra Wilkinson (born 1985)American television personality
Alex Wilkinson (born 1984)Australian association football player
Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947)British Labour Party politician
Adrienne Wilkinson (born 1977)American actress

People named Wilkinson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Wilkinson

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.