How common is the surname Harston?

711 people in the United States had the surname Harston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 434,241 Americans. It ranked 32,365th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Harston getting more or less common?

Less common. 736 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 711 in 2010, down 3.4%.

The surname Harston

An English place surname, carried by 711 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Harston is more common than 80.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

Two possible origins: * The village in Cambridgeshire is probably named with the Old English personal name *Herel + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). * The village in Leicestershire is named with Old English hār (“grey”) + stān (“stone”).

Harston 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 711 people named Harston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 434,241 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 736.

#32,365

rank among US surnames

711

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-3.4%

change since 2000 (was #30,061)

Who is named Harston

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

64% of people named Harston identified as white (not Hispanic), 30% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 64%
Black (not Hispanic) 30%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Two or more races 2.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hardstone

Surnames that sound like Harston

Harston has the Soundex code H623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H623.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Harston come from?: Two possible origins: * The village in Cambridgeshire is probably named with the Old English personal name *Herel + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). * The village in Leicestershire is named with Old English hār (“grey”) + stān (“stone”).
How common is the surname Harston?: 711 people in the United States had the surname Harston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 434,241 Americans. It ranked 32,365th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Harston?: In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Harston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Harston?: Harston is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Harston getting more or less common?: Less common. 736 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 711 in 2010, down 3.4%.
What are other spellings of Harston?: Hardstone.