How common is the surname Hetherington?

3,403 people in the United States had the surname Hetherington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,727 Americans. It ranked 9,552nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Hetherington getting more or less common?

More common. 3,250 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,403 in 2010, up 4.7%.

The surname Hetherington

An English place surname, carried by 3,403 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex H365

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hetherington is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

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”).

Hetherington 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 3,403 people named Hetherington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 90,727 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,250.

#9,552

rank among US surnames

3,403

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+4.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,230)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,547	Bose	3,406	90,648
#9,548	Arney	3,405	90,674
#9,551	Obando	3,404	90,701
#9,552	Heinemann	3,403	90,727
#9,557	Lampley	3,402	90,754
#9,560	Arp	3,401	90,781

Who is named Hetherington

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

90% of people named Hetherington identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Etherington
Heatherington

Hetherington has the Soundex code H365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H365.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hetherington come from?: 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”).
How common is the surname Hetherington?: 3,403 people in the United States had the surname Hetherington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,727 Americans. It ranked 9,552nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hetherington?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Hetherington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Hetherington?: Hetherington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hetherington getting more or less common?: More common. 3,250 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,403 in 2010, up 4.7%.
What are other spellings of Hetherington?: Etherington and Heatherington.