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.
About 6.7 million American women suffer from infertility, 1% of whom struggle to get pregnant because of poor-quality eggs. Most of these women, whose ovaries donât produce the regular amounts of estrogen needed to nurture and develop healthy eggs every month, will enter menopause before they turn 40.