# Worthington (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/worthington/  
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) | 14,452 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,503 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 21,364 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.9% (14,038 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Old English personal name *Weorþ + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Worthington 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) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Worthington in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Worthington

- Sam Worthington, Australian and English actor (born 1976)
- Eleanor Worthington Cox, British actress
- William Worthington, American silent film actor and director (1872-1941)
- Charlotte Worthington, British bicycle motocross rider
- Mark Worthington, Australian basketball player (born 1983)
- George Worthington, Australian tennis player (1928–1964)
- Cal Worthington, American businessman
- Lara Worthington, Australian model and social media personality
- Justin Henry, American actor

## Similar surnames

Wortham, Wortman, Worthen, Worthing, Wharton, Warden, Worden, Whorton, Wroten, Warthen, Wertman, Wertheimer.

## 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.