Harrington

At the 2020 census, 63,775 Americans bore the surname Harrington — 515th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,687.

By the numbers

People: 63,775
Rank: 515th
How common: 1 in 4,687
Per 100,000: 21.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Harrington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.2%
Black, not Hispanic 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Harrington

Desmond Harrington (born 1976)American actor
Kellie Harrington (born 1989)Irish boxer
Paul Harrington (born 1960)Irish singer
James Harrington (1611–1677)English political theorist of classical republicanism
Mike Harrington (born 1964)co-founder of Valve Corporation
Al Harrington (born 1980)American basketball player
Dan Harrington (born 1945)American poker player
Pádraig Harrington (born 1971)Irish professional golfer

People named Harrington with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Harrington

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.