# Allport (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/allport/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 635 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,447 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 486,213 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.5% (580 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a place called Alport in Derbyshire, from Old English eald (“old”) + port.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Allport in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Allport in the United States.

## People named Allport

- Gordon Allport, American psychologist (1897–1967)
- Christopher Allport, American actor (1947–2008)

## Similar surnames

Alpert, Allbritton, Allbright, Alper, Albor, Alvarez, Alvarado, Alfaro, Albert, Alford, Albright, Albrecht.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.