The surname Hampton
An English place surname, carried by 69,472 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈhæmp.tən/ 2 syllables Soundex H513 Also a first name
Origin
English origin
Variously from: * Old English Hāmtūn, from hām and tūn (equivalent to home + town); * Old English hēantūn, from hēah and tūn (equivalent to high + town). The town in New Brunswick may have been named after one of several towns in New England. The civil parish is named after the town.
Hampton 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 69,472 people named Hampton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 4,444 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 66,378.
Who is named Hampton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
54% of people named Hampton identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 54%
- Black (not Hispanic) 40%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Famous Hamptons
19 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Lionel HamptonAmerican jazz musician (1908–2002)
- Fred HamptonAfrican-American activist (1948-1969)
- Jamie HamptonAmerican female tennis player, born 1990
- Millard HamptonAthletics competitor, sprinter, born 1956
- Wade Hampton IIIAmerican politician (1818-1902)
- Slide HamptonAmerican trombonist (1932–2021)
- R. J. HamptonAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Shanola HamptonAmerican actress, born 1977
- Hope HamptonAmerican actress (1897-1982)
- James HamptonAmerican actor, television director, and screenwriter (1936–2021)
- Bruce HamptonAmerican musician (1947–2017)
- Mike HamptonAmerican professional baseball player, pitcher, born 1972
Notable Hamptons come mostly from the United States (18) and Rwanda (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Hanton
Hampton has the Soundex code H513, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H513.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hampton come from?
- Variously from: * Old English Hāmtūn, from hām and tūn (equivalent to home + town); * Old English hēantūn, from hēah and tūn (equivalent to high + town). The town in New Brunswick may have been named after one of several towns in New England. The civil parish is named after the town.
- How common is the surname Hampton?
- 69,472 people in the United States had the surname Hampton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 4,444 Americans. It ranked 482nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hampton?
- In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Hampton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Hampton?
- Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician (1908–2002), followed by Fred Hampton.
- Where is the surname Hampton most common?
- Wikidata records people named Hampton in the United States and Rwanda.
- How do you pronounce Hampton?
- Hampton is /ˈhæmp.tən/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Hampton?
- Hampton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Hampton getting more or less common?
- More common. 66,378 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 69,472 in 2010, up 4.7%.
- What are other spellings of Hampton?
- Hanton.
- Is Hampton also a first name?
- Yes. Hampton 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.