Addington

Addington is the 7,087th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,549 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 65,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,549
Rank: 7,087th
How common: 1 in 65,700
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Probably from the Old English personal names *Eadda or *Æddi + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Addington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Addington

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844)Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804

People named Addington with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Addington

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.