# Pilkington (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pilkington/  
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) | 4,336 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,660 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 71,205 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.7% (4,221 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Pilkinton |

## Etymology

English habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from an Old English personal name *Pīleca + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pilkington 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% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pilkington in the United Kingdom.

## People named Pilkington

- Dianne Pilkington, British actor and singer

## Similar surnames

Pilkinton, Paulson, Paulsen, Plascencia, Pleasant, Polson, Placencia, Poulsen, Plasencia, Poulson, Peloquin, Plaisance.

## 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.