Kingston

6,786 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kingston in the 2020 census, making it the 5,012th most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,786
Rank: 5,012th
How common: 1 in 44,000
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

In the case of settlements outside England, from king's +, in reference to monarchs of the British Empire. In the case of settlements within England, a development from earlier Old English Cinges tūn or Cynges tūn (“king's town or manor”), in reference to various monarchs. Sometimes derived from other places already named Kingston or particularly in America, from people with the surname King. Cf.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.6%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kingston

Kofi Kingston (born 1981)Ghanaian-American professional wrestler
Alex Kingston (born 1963)British actress
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940)Chinese American author
Natalie Kingston (1905–1991)American actress
Eddie Kingston (born 1981)American professional wrestler
Laryea Kingston (born 1980)Ghanaian footballer
Jack Kingston (born 1955)American politician

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

Surnames like Kingston

Also a first name

Kingston has been given to 46,599 American babies as a first name since 1919, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.