Covington
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From Covington, Lanarkshire ('Colban's farmstead'), or from Covington, Cambridgeshire ('farmstead associated with Cofa')
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Covington is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22K
- KYCayman Islands≈1 in 4.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 447 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈89,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cayman Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Covington, Lanarkshire ('Colban's farmstead'), or from Covington, Cambridgeshire ('farmstead associated with Cofa').
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Covington counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Covington | 6 |
| US United States | 27,068 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Covington | 447 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Covington | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Covington | 108 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Covington | 57 |
| LA Laos | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Covington | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | — | 1 |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Covington | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leonard Covingtonb. 1768USAmerican politician (1768-1813)
- James Harry Covingtonb. 1870USAmerican politician (1870-1942)
- Covington Scott Littletonb. 1933USAmerican anthropologist and academic
- Joey Covingtonb. 1945USAmerican drummer (1945–2013)
- Julie Covingtonb. 1946GBEnglish singer and actress
- Harold Covingtonb. 1953USAmerican neo-Nazi (1953–2018)
- Carter Covingtonb. 1973USAmerican television producer and writer
- Aaron Covingtonb. 1984USAmerican screenwriter and sound designer
- Colby Covingtonb. 1988USAmerican mixed martial artist (born 1988)
- Robert Covingtonb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 27K | #1,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 26K | #1,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 25K | #1,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #47,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39 | #47,857 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Covington mean, and where does it come from?
- From Covington, Lanarkshire ('Colban's farmstead'), or from Covington, Cambridgeshire ('farmstead associated with Cofa'). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Covington have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 89 thousand people named Covington in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled covington.
- How common is the name Covington?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,068 people named Covington in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Covington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.