Given name & surname · also Middle English
Wilkins
“small”
Wilkins is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Latin.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Wilkins comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Wilkins as a surname is a diminutive of William.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wilkins through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 286
- 286 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 505 as a first name in 2020; 55,955 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wilkins’s family of names
In English usage, Wilkins as a surname is a diminutive of William. In English usage, Wilkins as a surname has a related form in WILKIN.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Wilkins
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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