How common is the surname Barrington?

4,843 people in the United States had the surname Barrington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,751 Americans. It ranked 6,928th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Barrington getting more or less common?

More common. 4,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,843 in 2010, up 4.2%.

Is Barrington also a first name?

Yes. Barrington is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Barrington

A patronymic surname, carried by 4,843 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barrington is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from Medieval Latin Barentinum, Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of Celtic/Gaulish origin and identical with Barenton, both names from a Gaulish word related to water. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), see Barnes, Barron.

Barrington is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,843 people named Barrington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,751 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,649.

#6,928

rank among US surnames

4,843

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.2%

change since 2000 (was #6,705)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,921	Marty	4,848	63,685
#6,924	Loudermilk	4,845	63,725
#6,926	Neary	4,844	63,738
#6,928	Borg	4,843	63,751
#6,930	Fordham	4,838	63,817
#6,932	Arguelles	4,837	63,830
#6,933	Holler	4,836	63,843

Who is named Barrington

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

80% of people named Barrington identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 14%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Barrington

Barrington has the Soundex code B652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B652.

Questions

Where does the surname Barrington come from?: * As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime,…
How common is the surname Barrington?: 4,843 people in the United States had the surname Barrington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,751 Americans. It ranked 6,928th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Barrington?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Barrington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Barrington?: Barrington is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Barrington getting more or less common?: More common. 4,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,843 in 2010, up 4.2%.
Is Barrington also a first name?: Yes. Barrington is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.