# Hinton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hinton/  
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.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 35,606 |
| US rank (2010) | 979 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 8,671 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.2% (33,209 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From either Old English hēan, dative form of hēah (“high”), or hīwan (“household”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hinton 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) | 53% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 41% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 2.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hinton in the United States and Canada.

## People named Hinton

- Geoffrey Hinton, British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
- S. E. Hinton, American writer
- Jerrika Hinton, American actress
- Milt Hinton, American musician and photographer (1910-2000)
- Joan Hinton, American physicist (1921–2010)
- Nate Hinton, American basketball player (born 1999)
- Shauntay Hinton, American beauty pageant contestant
- Darby Hinton, actor, born 1957

## Similar surnames

Henton, Huntoon, Hindman, Huntington, Hendon, Hamdan, Hyndman, Hindmarsh.

## 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.