How common is the surname Edgington?

3,077 people in the United States had the surname Edgington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,340 Americans. It ranked 10,451st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Edgington?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Edgington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Edgington getting more or less common?

More common. 2,863 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,077 in 2010, up 7.5%.

The surname Edgington

An English place surname, carried by 3,077 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex E325

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Edgington is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

English origin

Probably a habitational surname from a lost place, from the Old English personal name Eċġa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Edgington 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 3,077 people named Edgington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 100,340 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,863.

#10,451

rank among US surnames

3,077

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+7.5%

change since 2000 (was #10,312)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,445	Postell	3,080	100,242
#10,448	Hillier	3,079	100,275
#10,450	Riffe	3,078	100,307
#10,451	Edgington	3,077	100,340
#10,453	Mellen	3,076	100,372
#10,458	Hagar	3,075	100,405
#10,459	Doria	3,074	100,438

Who is named Edgington

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

93% of people named Edgington identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Edginton
Eginton

Surnames that sound like Edgington

Edgin

Edgington has the Soundex code E325, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E325.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Edgington come from?: Probably a habitational surname from a lost place, from the Old English personal name Eċġa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Edgington?: 3,077 people in the United States had the surname Edgington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,340 Americans. It ranked 10,451st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Edgington?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Edgington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Edgington?: Edgington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Edgington getting more or less common?: More common. 2,863 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,077 in 2010, up 7.5%.
What are other spellings of Edgington?: Edginton and Eginton.