Worthington

Worthington is the 2,542nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,855 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,855
Rank: 2,542nd
How common: 1 in 21,600
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name *Weorþ + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Worthington

Nigel Worthington (born 1961)Northern Irish association football player and manager
Eleanor Worthington Cox (born 2001)British actress
Charlotte Worthington (born 1996)British bicycle motocross rider
William Worthington (1872–1941)American silent film actor and director
Kay Worthington (born 1959)Canadian rower
Frank Worthington (1948–2021)English footballer
Thomas Worthington (1773–1827)Governor of Ohio

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

Surnames like Worthington

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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.