Ellington

At the 2020 census, 10,791 Americans bore the surname Ellington — 3,266th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,700.

By the numbers

People: 10,791
Rank: 3,266th
How common: 1 in 27,700
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From either the Old English personal name Ella or ǣl (“eel”) + -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 Ellington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.7%
Black, not Hispanic 31.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Ellington

Duke Ellington (1899–1974)American jazz pianist and composer

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

Surnames like Ellington

Also a first name

Ellington has been given to 1,704 American babies as a first name since 1921, peaking in 2015. 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.