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    The surname Darrington

    An English place surname, carried by 1,833 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D652

    Darrington: #15,871 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Darrington #15,871, 1,833 people Darrington: #15,871 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Darrington #15,871, 1,833 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Darrington is more common than 90.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

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

    Darrington 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 1,833 people named Darrington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 168,437 Americans. That is up 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,408.

    #15,871
    rank among US surnames
    1,833
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +30.2%
    change since 2000 (was #18,216)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,864Leonardi1,834168,345
    #15,871Roh1,833168,437
    #15,879Bondy1,832168,529

    Who is named Darrington

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

    60% of people named Darrington identified as white (not Hispanic), 34% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 60%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 34%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Darrington

    Darrington has the Soundex code D652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D652.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Darrington come from?
    From the Old English personal name Deornōþ + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
    How common is the surname Darrington?
    1,833 people in the United States had the surname Darrington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 168,437 Americans. It ranked 15,871st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Darrington?
    In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Darrington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 34% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Darrington?
    Darrington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Darrington getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,408 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,833 in 2010, up 30%.