Carrington

12,082 people in the United States were counted with the surname Carrington in the 2020 census, making it the 2,907th most common in the country. That is about one person in 24,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,082
Rank: 2,907th
How common: 1 in 24,700
Per 100,000: 4.0

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 Carrington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 46.5%
White, not Hispanic 43.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Carrington

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)British-born Mexican artist, painter and novelist
Lisa Carrington (born 1989)New Zealand canoeist
Dora Carrington (1893–1932)British painter, photographer and decorative artist
Terri Lyne Carrington (born 1965)American drummer
Debbie Lee Carrington (1959–2018)American actress
Stuart Carrington (born 1990)English snooker player

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

Surnames like Carrington

Also a first name

Carrington has been given to 4,481 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2000. 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.