How common is the surname Pilkington?

4,336 people in the United States had the surname Pilkington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,205 Americans. It ranked 7,660th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pilkington?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pilkington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Pilkington?

Dianne Pilkington, British actor and singer.

Where is the surname Pilkington most common?

Wikidata records people named Pilkington in the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Pilkington getting more or less common?

More common. 4,221 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,336 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Pilkington

An English place surname, carried by 4,336 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pilkington is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Pilkington 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 4,336 people named Pilkington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,205 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,221.

#7,660

rank among US surnames

4,336

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #7,281)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,652	Lent	4,341	71,123
#7,655	Gober	4,339	71,156
#7,658	Kowal	4,337	71,189
#7,660	Hartford	4,336	71,205
#7,662	Desjardins	4,335	71,222
#7,663	Gillman	4,334	71,238
#7,665	Knorr	4,333	71,254

Who is named Pilkington

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

94% of people named Pilkington identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Pilkingtons

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Dianne Pilkington
British actor and singer, born 1975

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Pilkinton

Surnames that sound like Pilkington

Pilkinton

Pilkington has the Soundex code P425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P425.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pilkington come from?: English habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from an Old English personal name *Pīleca + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Pilkington?: 4,336 people in the United States had the surname Pilkington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,205 Americans. It ranked 7,660th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pilkington?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pilkington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Pilkington?: Dianne Pilkington, British actor and singer.
Where is the surname Pilkington most common?: Wikidata records people named Pilkington in the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Pilkington?: Pilkington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Pilkington getting more or less common?: More common. 4,221 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,336 in 2010, up 2.7%.
What are other spellings of Pilkington?: Pilkinton.