# Huddleston (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/huddleston/  
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) | 17,231 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,102 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 17,918 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.1% (16,872 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Yorkshire (see Huddleston with Newthorpe), from the Old English personal name *Hūdel + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Huddleston 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) | 84% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Huddleston in the United States.

## People named Huddleston

- David Huddleston, American actor (1930-2016)
- Walter Dee Huddleston, American politician (1926–2018)
- George Huddleston, American politician (1869-1960)
- Yusef Lateef, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Mu

## Similar surnames

Hidalgo, Hadlock.

## 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.