Dawkins
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dawkins is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 66th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Willelmus filius Daukyn 1332 SRLa, William Daukyn 13th WhC (Lancashire), Richard Daukyns 1354 AssSt, Magister Doctor Dawkyns 1534 GildY; 'Little David', from Dawe + kin.
- JMJamaica1 in 3.6K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 18K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- Sources
- 367 ●
- 1 in 22K ◐
across 9 countries
154K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
Willelmus filius Daukyn 1332 SRLa, William Daukyn 13th WhC (Lancashire), Richard Daukyns 1354 AssSt, Magister Doctor Dawkyns 1534 GildY; 'Little David', from Dawe + kin
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 15,431 | 131K rec. | 1 in 22K | 15K | Dawkins | 367 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,185 | 9.1K rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 164 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,599 | 4.3K rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 110 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,057 | 2K rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 86 |
| JM Jamaica | #103 | 1,332 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 36 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 307 | 321 rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | 278 | 269 rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 6 |
| RU Russia | — | 248 | 266 rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 8 |
| IT Italy | — | 239 | 240 rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 12 |
| LR Liberia | #66 | 217 | 717 rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 209 | 212 rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 4 |
| GR Greece | — | 84 | 83 rec. | — | — | Dawkins | 7 |
Roughly 15K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 22K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English159K86%
- Spanish6K3%
- 5.7K3%
- Hungarian1.3K1%
- German1.2K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 159,432 | 86% |
| Spanish | 6,005 | 3% |
| 5,674 | 3% | |
| Hungarian | 1,297 | 1% |
| German | 1,223 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dawkins is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Richard Dawkinsb. 1941GBEnglish ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
- Marian Stamp Dawkinsb. 1945GBBritish biologist
- Darryl Dawkinsb. 1957USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Paul Dawkinsb. 1957USTurkish-American basketball player (1957–2019)
- Johnny Dawkinsb. 1963USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Brian Dawkinsb. 1973USprofessional football player, safety
- Aloe Blaccb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper
- Simon Dawkinsb. 1987GBfootballer (born 1987)
- Eddie Dawkinsb. 1989NZNew Zealand racing cyclist
- Angelo Dawkinsb. 1990USAmerican professional wrestler
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,305 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,382 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 41 | #2,425 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 33 | #60,081 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 33 | #58,864 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #38,683 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #30,172 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 15 | #28,933 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #48,528 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dawkins?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Dawkins (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dawkins have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Dawkins in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dawkins.
- How common is Dawkins compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Dawkins is the 66th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Dawkins mean?
- Recorded meaning: Willelmus filius Daukyn 1332 SRLa, William Daukyn 13th WhC (Lancashire), Richard Daukyns 1354 AssSt, Magister Doctor Dawkyns 1534 GildY; 'Little David', from Dawe + kin
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dawkins” — the 66th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.