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    The surname Reddington

    An English place surname, carried by 1,800 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex R352

    Reddington: #16,087 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reddington #16,087, 1,800 people Reddington: #16,087 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reddington #16,087, 1,800 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reddington is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

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

    Reddington 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 1,800 people named Reddington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,525 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,664.

    #16,087
    rank among US surnames
    1,800
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.2%
    change since 2000 (was #16,016)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,079Wynkoop1,801171,430
    #16,087Shehan1,800171,525

    Who is named Reddington

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

    96% of people named Reddington identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Reddington

    Reddington has the Soundex code R352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R352.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Reddington come from?
    Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost place in England, from an Old English personal name *Rēada + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Reddington?
    1,800 people in the United States had the surname Reddington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,525 Americans. It ranked 16,087th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reddington?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Reddington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Reddington?
    Reddington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Reddington getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,664 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,800 in 2010, up 8.2%.
    What are other spellings of Reddington?
    Redington.