Armitage

Armitage is the 7,999th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,974 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 75,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,974
Rank: 7,999th
How common: 1 in 75,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

From Middle English ermitage (“hermitage”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Armitage

Richard Armitage (born 1971)British actor
Iain Armitage (born 2008)American actor
Heather Armitage (born 1933)British sprinter
Richard Armitage (1945–2025)American diplomat and government official
Simon Armitage (born 1963)British poet, playwright, and novelist
Ella Sophia Armitage (1841–1931)English historian
Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002)British sculptor
Albert Armitage (1864–1943)Scottish mariner

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

Surnames like Armitage

Try it on yourself

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.