# Hurston (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hurston/  
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) | 859 |
| US rank (2010) | 27,918 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 359,424 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.2% (832 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhɝ.stən/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from several minor places in England, from Old English heorot (“hart”) or hyrst (“wooded hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) or þorn (“thornbush”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hurston 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) | 39% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 53% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Two or more races | 4.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hurston in the United States.

## People named Hurston

- Zora Neale Hurston, African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891

## Similar surnames

Hairston, Harston, Hurst, Horst, Hargett, Hirst, Horstman, Hayhurst, Hearst, Horstmann, Harstad, Hershkowitz.

## 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.