# Haston (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/haston/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A 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) | 1,663 |
| US rank (2010) | 17,072 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 185,656 people |
| Change since 2000 | +15% (1,452 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Shropshire, from Old English hēafod (“head”) + stān (“stone”), or possibly a variant of Hairston.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Haston 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) | 77% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 18% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Haston in the United States.

## People named Haston

- Kirk Haston, American basketball player and politician

## Similar surnames

Houston, Huston, Heston, Hastings, Haughton, Hasting, Houghton, Higdon, Hiestand.

## 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.