Hinton

At the 2020 census, 34,256 Americans bore the surname Hinton — 1,001st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,725.

By the numbers

People: 34,256
Rank: 1,001st
How common: 1 in 8,725
Per 100,000: 11.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From either Old English hēan, dative form of hēah (“high”), or hīwan (“household”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 51.3%
Black, not Hispanic 39.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton (born 1947)British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
S. E. Hinton (born 1948)American writer
Jerrika Hinton (born 1981)American actress
Charles Howard Hinton (1853–1907)British mathematician
Milt Hinton (1910–2000)American musician and photographer
Marvin Hinton (1940–2025)English footballer
Alan Hinton (born 1942)English footballer and manager
Joan Hinton (1921–2010)American physicist

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

Surnames like Hinton

Also a first name

Hinton has been given to 566 American babies as a first name since 1908, peaking in 1920. 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.