Last Name TONKS

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The son of Antony, from the nickname Tony, and with diminutive suffix Ton-kin. 'Kins' becomes 'ks.' Another possibility is a corruption of Tomkinson and Tomkins.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 37,938 (2000 US census) 41,836 (1990 US census)
Count 550 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 96%, or 528 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.18%, or 12 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

 How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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