Billington

Billington is the 8,902nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,529 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 84,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,529
Rank: 8,902nd
How common: 1 in 84,700
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.1%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Billington

James H. Billington (1929–2018)13th Librarian of Congress
Francelia Billington (1895–1934)American actress
Teddy Billington (1882–1966)American racing cyclist
Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964)British suffragette

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

Surnames like Billington

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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.