Hackney

8,902 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hackney in the 2020 census, making it the 3,876th most common in the country. That is about one person in 33,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,902
Rank: 3,876th
How common: 1 in 33,600
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

The senses "a horse" and "(a means of transport) available for hire" derive from the fact that many horses were kept for hire in the London borough of Hackney. The place name is from Old English *Hacan īeġ "Hacan's Isle" (or "Hook's Island"), referring to dry land in a marsh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.6%
Black, not Hispanic 14.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Hackney

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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.