Singleton

At the 2020 census, 52,173 Americans bore the surname Singleton — 632nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,729.

By the numbers

People: 52,173
Rank: 632nd
How common: 1 in 5,729
Per 100,000: 17.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English shyngel (“shingle”) + toun (“town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 46.8%
White, not Hispanic 44.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Singleton

Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818–1877)First Lady of the United States
John Singleton (1968–2019)American film director, screenwriter, and producer
IronE Singleton (born 1975)American actor
Penny Singleton (1908–2003)American actress
Doris Singleton (1919–2012)American actress
Chris Singleton (born 1989)American basketball player
Isaac C. Singleton Jr. (born 1967)American actor
Zutty Singleton (1898–1975)American jazz drummer

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

Surnames like Singleton

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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.