Hastings

Hastings is the 1,279th most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,903 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,100.

By the numbers

People: 26,903
Rank: 1,279th
How common: 1 in 11,100
Per 100,000: 9.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

The placename in England is derived from the Old English tribal name Hæstingas (“Hæsta's people, the family/followers of Hæsta”), which was later transferred to their settlement.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Hastings

Warren Hastings (1732–1818)Governor-General of Bengal, 1773–1785
Reed Hastings (born 1960)American entrepreneur and education philanthropist
Natasha Hastings (born 1986)American sprinter
Bob Hastings (1925–2014)American actor
Michael Hastings (1980–2013)American journalist
Alcee Hastings (1936–2021)American politician & judge
Max Hastings (born 1945)English journalist, editor, historian and author
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (1431–1483)English nobleman

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

Surnames like Hastings

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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.