How common is the surname Arrington?

22,840 people in the United States had the surname Arrington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,518 Americans. It ranked 1,573rd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Arrington?

Elayne Arrington, American mathematician and engineer, followed by Alanna Arrington.

Where is the surname Arrington most common?

Wikidata records people named Arrington in the United States.

Is the surname Arrington getting more or less common?

More common. 21,216 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 22,840 in 2010, up 7.7%.

The surname Arrington

An English place surname, carried by 22,840 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Arrington is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

English origin

From the Old English personal name *Earna, a byname from earn (“eagle”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Arrington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 22,840 people named Arrington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 13,518 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,216.

#1,573

rank among US surnames

22,840

people in 2010

7.7

per 100,000 Americans

+7.7%

change since 2000 (was #1,554)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,564	Swan	23,001	13,423
#1,565	Hinkle	22,983	13,434
#1,567	Butcher	22,978	13,437
#1,568	Ornelas	22,969	13,442
#1,569	Forrest	22,954	13,451
#1,570	Colbert	22,940	13,459
#1,571	Aleman	22,927	13,466

Who is named Arrington

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

51% of people named Arrington identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 51%
Black (not Hispanic) 43%
Two or more races 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Arringtons

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Elayne Arrington
American mathematician and engineer, born 1940
Alanna Arrington
American model, born 1998
Joe Tex
American singer-songwriter, 1933–1982

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Arington

Surnames that sound like Arrington

Arango

Arrington has the Soundex code A652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A652.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Arrington come from?: From the Old English personal name *Earna, a byname from earn (“eagle”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Arrington?: 22,840 people in the United States had the surname Arrington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,518 Americans. It ranked 1,573rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Arrington?: In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Arrington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Arrington?: Elayne Arrington, American mathematician and engineer, followed by Alanna Arrington.
Where is the surname Arrington most common?: Wikidata records people named Arrington in the United States.
What type of surname is Arrington?: Arrington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Arrington getting more or less common?: More common. 21,216 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 22,840 in 2010, up 7.7%.
What are other spellings of Arrington?: Arington.