Aiken
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English
Etymology
From a mostly Irish variant of Adkin and Atkin, diminutives of the given name Adam.
Proper noun
Aiken (countable and uncountable, plural Aikens)
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A city, the county seat of Aiken County, South Carolina, United States.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Aiken is the 2816th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 12812 individuals. Aiken is most common among White (66.4%) and Black/African American (27.64%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Aiken”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 15.