# Hetherington (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hetherington/  
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) | 3,403 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,552 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 90,727 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.7% (3,250 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Etherington, Heatherington |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, from either Old English hēahdēor (“deer, stag”) or hǣddre (“heather”) + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hetherington 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) | 90% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Similar surnames

Hawthorne, Hathorn, Huitron, Hawthorn.

## 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.