Frequency: (4383)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Variant, associated chiefly with northern Ireland, of the Scottish surname Aitken.
FOREBEARS: Aiken is the name of a NH family that was prominent in the 18th century; also of a Charleston family descended from a certain William Aiken, who emigrated from Antrim in Ireland to Charleston in about 1800.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
