Hetherington

Hetherington is the 9,601st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,238 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 92,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,238
Rank: 9,601st
How common: 1 in 92,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, from either Old English hēahdēor (“deer, stag”) or hǣddre (“heather”) + -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 Hetherington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hetherington

Tim Hetherington (1970–2011)British photographer
Jill Hetherington (born 1964)Canadian tennis player and coach

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

Surnames like Hetherington

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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.