Covington

26,160 people in the United States were counted with the surname Covington in the 2020 census, making it the 1,317th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,400.

By the numbers

People: 26,160
Rank: 1,317th
How common: 1 in 11,400
Per 100,000: 8.8

Where the name comes from

From Old English Cofingtun, from Cofa + -ing (“belonging to”) + -tun (“settlement”); literally “Cofa’s Town”.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 47.2%
Black, not Hispanic 43.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Covington

Robert Covington (born 1990)American basketball player
Julie Covington (born 1946)English singer and actress
Colby Covington (born 1988)American mixed martial artist

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

Surnames like Covington

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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.