Arrington

21,150 people in the United States were counted with the surname Arrington in the 2020 census, making it the 1,659th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,100.

By the numbers

People: 21,150
Rank: 1,659th
How common: 1 in 14,100
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name *Earna, a byname from earn (“eagle”), + -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 Arrington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 48.4%
Black, not Hispanic 42.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Arrington

Jodey Arrington (born 1972)U.S. Representative from Texas

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

Surnames like Arrington

Also a first name

Arrington has been given to 749 American babies as a first name since 1970, peaking in 2005. See it as a given name.

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.