Houghton

At the 2020 census, 10,810 Americans bore the surname Houghton — 3,260th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,700.

By the numbers

People: 10,810
Rank: 3,260th
How common: 1 in 27,700
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English hōh (“ridge, spur”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Houghton

Michael Houghton (born 1949)virologist
Steph Houghton (born 1988)English association football player
Ray Houghton (born 1962)Irish association football player
Katharine Houghton (born 1945)American actress, playwright
Bob Houghton (born 1947)English footballer and manager
John Houghton (1931–2020)Welsh physicist
Frances Houghton (born 1980)British rower
Israel Houghton (born 1971)American musician

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

Surnames like Houghton

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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.