Livingston

At the 2020 census, 40,605 Americans bore the surname Livingston — 833rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,361.

By the numbers

People: 40,605
Rank: 833rd
How common: 1 in 7,361
Per 100,000: 13.6

Where the name comes from

from Old English. Cognate with Scots Leivinstoun.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.6%
Black, not Hispanic 19.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Livingston

Ron Livingston (born 1967)American actor
Edward Livingston (1764–1836)American jurist and statesman
Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813)(1746-1813) American lawyer, politician, diplomat and founding father
Shaun Livingston (born 1985)American basketball player
William Livingston (1723–1790)American politician
Margaret Livingston (1895–1984)American actress
Jay Livingston (1915–2001)American composer and singer
Robert Livingston (1904–1988)American actor

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

Surnames like Livingston

Also a first name

Livingston has been given to 1,071 American babies as a first name since 1890, peaking in 1917. 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.