# Hungate (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hungate/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,136 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,608 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 271,783 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.9% (1,063 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from several minor places in England, from either Old English hund (“hound”) or Old Norse hundr (“dog”) + Old Norse gata (“road, street”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hungate 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) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hungate in the United States.

## People named Hungate

- William L. Hungate, American politician (1922–2007)

## Similar surnames

Honeycutt, Hunnicutt, Howington, Huneycutt, Hanchett, Humiston, Hohenstein, Hauenstein, Hengst.

## 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.