Langston

At the 2020 census, 18,883 Americans bore the surname Langston — 1,865th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,800.

By the numbers

People: 18,883
Rank: 1,865th
How common: 1 in 15,800
Per 100,000: 6.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English lang (“long, tall”) + stan (“stone”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.3%
Black, not Hispanic 22.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Langston

Also a first name

Langston has been given to 7,664 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2016. 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.