# Egerton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/egerton/  
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) | 970 |
| US rank (2010) | 25,486 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 318,294 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.3% (958 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Old English personal name Ecgheard or Ecghere + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Egerton 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) | 72% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 24% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Two or more races | 0.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Egerton in the United Kingdom.

## People named Egerton

- Taron Egerton, British actor (born 1989)
- Tamsin Egerton, British actress

## Similar surnames

Edgerton, Eggert, Eckert, Eckhardt, Eskridge, Eckard, Eckhart, Eckart, Eckardt.

## 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.