How common is the surname Huddleston?

17,231 people in the United States had the surname Huddleston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,918 Americans. It ranked 2,102nd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Huddleston?

David Huddleston, American actor (1930-2016), followed by Walter Dee Huddleston.

Where is the surname Huddleston most common?

Wikidata records people named Huddleston in the United States.

Is the surname Huddleston getting more or less common?

More common. 16,872 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,231 in 2010, up 2.1%.

The surname Huddleston

An English place surname, carried by 17,231 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H342

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Huddleston is more common than 98.7% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Huddleston 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 17,231 people named Huddleston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,918 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,872.

#2,102

rank among US surnames

17,231

people in 2010

5.8

per 100,000 Americans

+2.1%

change since 2000 (was #1,957)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,093	Eckert	17,269	17,879
#2,095	McGovern	17,257	17,891
#2,096	Boykin	17,255	17,893
#2,097	Saldivar	17,250	17,898
#2,098	Woodson	17,242	17,907
#2,099	Oakley	17,238	17,911
#2,100	Whittaker	17,234	17,915

Who is named Huddleston

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

84% of people named Huddleston identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 84%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 2.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Huddlestons

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

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, 1920–2013

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Huddleston come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Yorkshire (see Huddleston with Newthorpe), from the Old English personal name *Hūdel + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Huddleston?: 17,231 people in the United States had the surname Huddleston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,918 Americans. It ranked 2,102nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Huddleston?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Huddleston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Huddleston?: David Huddleston, American actor (1930-2016), followed by Walter Dee Huddleston.
Where is the surname Huddleston most common?: Wikidata records people named Huddleston in the United States.
What type of surname is Huddleston?: Huddleston is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Huddleston getting more or less common?: More common. 16,872 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,231 in 2010, up 2.1%.