# Harrington (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/harrington/  
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 from several places of that name in England.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 66,959 |
| US rank (2010) | 500 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 4,611 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (65,131 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Harington |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Harrington 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) | 82% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Harrington in the United States, South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom.

## People named Harrington

- Desmond Harrington, American actor (born 1976)
- Al Harrington, American basketball player (born 1980)
- Dan Harrington, American poker player (born 1945)
- Jay Harrington, American actor (born 1971)
- Pat Harrington Jr., American Emmy Award-winning stage and television actor (1929–2016)
- Curtis Harrington, American film director (1926-2007)
- John Peabody Harrington, American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the indigenous peoples of California
- John Harrington, American ice hockey player and coach
- Michael Harrington, American socialist writer (1928–1989)
- Robert G. Harrington, American astronomer (1904-1987)
- Robert Sutton Harrington, American astronomer (1942–1993)
- Emily Harrington, American rock climber

and 12 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Herrington, Herring, Haring, Harring, Harms, Hornsby, Hermosillo, Harness, Hermes, Hering, Harnish, Hornick.

## 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.