Hairston

15,663 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hairston in the 2020 census, making it the 2,262nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,100.

By the numbers

People: 15,663
Rank: 2,262nd
How common: 1 in 19,100
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Habitational surname from a place in Scotland.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 76.2%
White, not Hispanic 12.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 7.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hairston

Jester Hairston (1901–2000)American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor
Malik Hairston (born 1987)American basketball player
Marlon Hairston (born 1994)American soccer player
Happy Hairston (1942–2001)basketball player

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

Surnames like Hairston

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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.