How common is the surname Huntington?

7,306 people in the United States had the surname Huntington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,259 Americans. It ranked 4,831st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Huntington?

Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (1927–2008), followed by Sam Huntington.

Where is the surname Huntington most common?

Wikidata records people named Huntington in the United States.

How do you pronounce Huntington?

Huntington is /ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.tən/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Huntington getting more or less common?

More common. 6,991 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,306 in 2010, up 4.5%.

The surname Huntington

A place surname, carried by 7,306 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.tən/ 3 syllables Soundex H535

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Huntington is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

An English habitational surname for someone who lived at any of several places whose name is derived from Old English hunta, hunter, especially from Huntingdon.

Huntington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,306 people named Huntington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,259 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,991.

#4,831

rank among US surnames

7,306

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+4.5%

change since 2000 (was #4,637)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,826	Bosch	7,312	42,224
#4,827	Thornburg	7,309	42,242
#4,828	Guffey	7,307	42,253
#4,831	Huntington	7,306	42,259

Who is named Huntington

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

88% of people named Huntington identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Huntingtons

14 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Samuel P. Huntington
American political scientist (1927–2008)
Sam Huntington
American actor, born 1982
George Huntington
American physician (1850–1916); discoverer of Huntington's disease
Ellsworth Huntington
American geographer (1876-1947)
Samuel Huntington
American statesman; 18th Governor of Connecticut (1731-1796)
Anna Hyatt Huntington
American sculptor (1876–1973)
Henry E. Huntington
American businessman (1850–1927)
Samuel Huntington
American politician; Governor of Ohio (1765-1817)
Daniel Huntington
American artist (1816-1906)
Collis Potter Huntington
American businessman (1821-1900)
Edward Vermilye Huntington
American mathematician (1874-1952)
Bob Huntington
American tennis player (1869-1949)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Huntington

Huntoon

Huntington has the Soundex code H535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H535.

Questions

How common is the surname Huntington?: 7,306 people in the United States had the surname Huntington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,259 Americans. It ranked 4,831st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Huntington?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Huntington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Huntington?: Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (1927–2008), followed by Sam Huntington.
Where is the surname Huntington most common?: Wikidata records people named Huntington in the United States.
How do you pronounce Huntington?: Huntington is /ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.tən/, 3 syllables.
What type of surname is Huntington?: Huntington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Huntington getting more or less common?: More common. 6,991 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,306 in 2010, up 4.5%.