Found in the spellings of Atkinson, Aitchison, Acheson, Aicheson, and Aitcheson, it is as a patronymic form of the medieval male given name Atkin or Adkin, itself a double diminutive of the Hebrew name 'Adam', meaning 'red earth'.
But for natural conception, age rarely keeps women from getting pregnant until they are over 40. Even in their early 40s, though, most women are still able to get pregnant, especially if they use ovulation prediction.
Fertility starts to decline for women from about the age of 30, dropping down more steeply from the age of 35 (CKS 2007, NCCWCH 2013:65) . As women grow older the likelihood of getting pregnant falls while the likelihood of infertility rises.our chance of conceiving quickly does depend on your age. Women are most fertile between the ages of 20 and 24 (Utting and Bewley 2011) . It can take much longer to get pregnant when you hit your late 30s or early 40s.