Wilken: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Search old registers for Wilken and you will soon meet Wilkins too. At root, the name means “The son of little Will, a pet form of William (resolution, helmet)”.

• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• Before spelling was fixed, Wilkins was also written Wilken.
• Other spellings include Wilkens, Wilkin and Wilkerson.
• In the 2010 US Census, 3,366 Americans gave Wilken as their last name (rank 9,642). That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Wilkins and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Wilken family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.