Barrington

At the 2020 census, 4,284 Americans bore the surname Barrington — 7,490th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 69,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,284
Rank: 7,490th
How common: 1 in 69,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -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 Barrington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Barrington

Also a first name

Barrington has been given to 1,281 American babies as a first name since 1928, peaking in 1991. 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.