# Wallington (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/wallington/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational 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) | 590 |
| US rank (2010) | 37,691 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 523,298 people |
| Change since 2000 | -24.3% (779 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈwɒlɪŋtən/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English wealh (“foreigner; Briton, Welshman”) + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Wallington 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) | 59% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 37% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Wallington in the United States.

## People named Wallington

- Jim Wallington, American boxer (1944–1988)

## Similar surnames

Wellington, Walling, Welling, Wallingford, Williams, Williamson, Willingham, Willems, Walmsley, Wilmès, Willing, Willms.

## 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.