Hampton

At the 2020 census, 66,633 Americans bore the surname Hampton — 491st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,486.

By the numbers

People: 66,633
Rank: 491st
How common: 1 in 4,486
Per 100,000: 22.3

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

White, not Hispanic 51.3%
Black, not Hispanic 39.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hampton

Lionel Hampton (1908–2002)American jazz musician
Christopher Hampton (born 1946)British playwright, screenwriter and translator
Fred Hampton (1948–1969)African-American activist
Hannah Hampton (born 2000)English footballer
Jamie Hampton (born 1990)American female tennis player
Millard Hampton (born 1956)Athletics competitor, sprinter
Wade Hampton III (1818–1902)American politician
Slide Hampton (1932–2021)American trombonist

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

Surnames like Hampton

Also a first name

Hampton has been given to 5,039 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. 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.