Hampton Surname

5,470th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 103,606 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Isle of Man

Hampton Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Hampton.' There are at least thirteen parishes of this name in England, representing the the Dioceses of Worcester, London, Hereford, Oxford, Exeter, and Lichfield.

John de Hampton, Somerset, 1273.

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Hampton Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States87,5081:4,142457
England6,9081:8,0661,187
Australia3,2591:8,2831,225
Canada1,7171:21,4592,956
New Zealand1,1631:3,894614
Ghana4851:55,7135,980
Scotland4611:11,6131,561
Wales3551:8,717965
Northern Ireland3281:5,6251,043
South Africa2831:191,44120,758
Saudi Arabia1591:194,06229,524
Liberia1291:34,1753,193
Mexico901:1,379,18015,553
Philippines781:1,297,92697,909
Portugal471:221,6658,706
Dominican Republic461:226,8038,136
Ireland361:130,8046,280
France361:1,845,076161,051
Costa Rica361:132,7802,002
Thailand331:2,140,556247,258
United Arab Emirates311:295,55719,854
Ecuador291:548,47711,265
Isle of Man291:2,959610
Brazil281:7,645,512174,288
Spain271:1,731,55749,506
Germany211:3,833,593163,016
Argentina211:2,035,401100,871
Switzerland191:432,25931,718
Netherlands181:938,17663,634
Jersey151:6,6131,336
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Qatar121:196,50026,891
Panama121:326,0227,351
India111:69,733,217610,955
Denmark91:627,19136,734
China81:170,915,1968,932
Zimbabwe81:1,929,78092,581
Italy71:8,736,670118,213
Japan71:18,263,47047,869
Sweden71:1,406,680102,017
Norway71:734,61250,907
Afghanistan61:5,358,86425,178
Russia61:24,020,509493,300
Trinidad and Tobago61:227,32910,175
Malaysia61:4,915,704170,578
South Korea51:10,248,0511,694
Belgium51:2,299,329106,824
Hong Kong51:1,467,0975,611
Marshall Islands41:12,9551,460
Chile41:4,404,11844,633
Iraq41:8,755,41423,373
Jamaica41:717,48710,371
Bahrain41:337,1526,054
Guernsey41:16,1101,225
Malta41:107,5681,849
Nigeria31:59,047,586507,603
Austria31:2,838,47893,604
Luxembourg21:290,2718,611
Czechia21:5,316,734169,646
Turkey21:38,910,711171,901
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Tajikistan11:8,386,69212,859
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382
Nepal11:28,480,95622,413
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
American Samoa11:55,7583,072
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Benin11:10,335,602103,742
Bosnia and Herzegovina11:3,536,40219,532
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Honduras11:8,816,4429,272
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Senegal11:14,579,34211,705
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Macau11:601,6301,582
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Belize11:355,4743,977
New Caledonia11:276,22310,363
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland2501:17,7192,154
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4,0851:5,967918
Scotland4481:8,3551,129
Isle of Man1361:39978
Wales581:27,0421,534
Guernsey71:4,665827
Jersey41:12,9712,116
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States12,1761:4,124509

Hampton (2,748) may also be a first name.

Hampton Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Hampton.' There are at least thirteen parishes of this name in England, representing the the Dioceses of Worcester, London, Hereford, Oxford, Exeter, and Lichfield.

John de Hampton, Somerset, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

William de Hamptone, Huntingdonshire, ibid.

Nicholas de Hampton, Wiltshire, ibid.

Philip de Hampton, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

Geoffrey de Hampton, Lincolnshire, ibid.

1575. John Hampton and Elizabeth Laymere: Marriage Lic. (London).

1661. Baptised — William, s. John Hampton: St. James, Clerkenwell.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

From one of the many Hamptons in England. Bardsley says there are at least thirteen parishes of the name there Rogerus de Hamtone witnessed resignation of the lands of Edeluestun to the church of Glasgow, 1233 (REG., p. 141). Margaret Hampton in Inverscandie, 1657 (Brechin).

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(English) belonging to Hampton = 1 the Ham-Town, i.e. the farmstead or village on the rich level pastureland, frequently riparian [O.E, ham(m + tún] 2 At the High Town [Old English heám, heán, dat. of heáh, high + túne (dat. of tún] Some Hamptons (e.g. in cos. Hereford and Somerset) occur in charters of the A.- Saxon period as Hamtún and Homtún; others (e.g. in cos. Gloucester and War­wick) as Heámtúne or Heántúne. South­ampton occurs as Hamtún (‘æt Hamtúne’) in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 837, which gives name to Hampshire (v. Hampshire). Some Hamptons (e.g. High Hampton, Devonshire, and Hampton-on-the-Hill, Warwickshire) indicate their etymology by later prefixes or suffixes.

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) One who came from Hampton (enclosure in a village, or high village), the name of several places in England.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Parishes and places in cos. Middlesex, Chester, Warwick, Hereford, Oxford, Worcester, Devon, Salop, Wilts, &c.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Local. The town on the hill; a village in Middlesex, England.

— An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

From a common English place-name.

— Manx Names (1890) by Arthur William Moore

William de Hantona, Normandy, 1198 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). William, Aelis, Gervase, Osbert, Walter de Hantona, Normandy, 1180-98 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae); Alexander, Reiner, Roger, Simon de Hamton, England, 1198 (Rotuli Curiae Regis). The family of Hampden, Bucks, from which descended the patriot John Hampden, derived from Alexander de Hamptona.

— The Norman People (1874)

A location name in Middlesex., Warwickshire, Worcestershire.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber
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Hampton Demographics

Average Male Hampton Height

177.34 cm

Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 1,298 (2014)

Average Female Hampton Height

162.5 cm

Average female height (US):
161.5 cm
Sample size: 256 (2014)

Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries

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Hampton Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Hampton Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Hampton is held by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Hampton? popularity and diffusion

It is the 5,470th most prevalent family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 70,339 people. The surname Hampton occurs mostly in The Americas, where 84 percent of Hampton reside; 84 percent reside in North America and 84 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 139,453rd most prevalent first name at a global level. It is borne by 2,748 people.

The surname Hampton is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 87,508 people, or 1 in 4,142. In The United States Hampton is mostly found in: Texas, where 9 percent reside, California, where 7 percent reside and Missouri, where 6 percent reside. Excluding The United States this last name occurs in 89 countries. It is also common in England, where 7 percent reside and Australia, where 3 percent reside.

Hampton Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Hampton has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Hampton last name expanded 719 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 169 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 103 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 612 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it fell 86 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Hampton Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the Hampton surname is primarily Anglican (69%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Hampton last name are 9.4% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 56.17% registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Hampton earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 50.26% more than the national average, earning R 357,084 per year; in United States they earn 9.43% less than the national average, earning $39,080 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.43% more than the national average, earning $51,885 CAD per year.

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Hampton Reference & Research

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