Addington
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Addington, a place-name meaning 'Eadda's (or Eddi's) estate'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ædɪŋtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Addington is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)person from Addington, a place-name meaning 'Eadda's (or Eddi's) estate'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Addington is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Addington (Buckinghamshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Surrey); first attested William de Adinton 1176 P (Bk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, William de Adinton 1176 P (Bk); Hugh de Adinton’ 1202 AssNth; Gilbert de Adintun’ 1226 Cur (Sr). From Addington (Bucks, Kent, Northants, Surrey).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Henry, English politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anthony Addingtonb. 1713GBEnglish physician
- Henry Addingtonb. 1757GBPrime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804
- John Hiley Addingtonb. 1759GBBritish politician (1759-1818)
- Henry Unwin Addingtonb. 1790GBDiplomat, civil servant (1790-1870)
- William Addington, 3rd Viscount Sidmouthb. 1824GBBritish Viscount (1824-1913)
- Julia Addingtonb. 1829USAmerican politician (1829-1875)
- Maybelle Carterb. 1909USnot in their usual nameAmerican country musician (1909–1978)
- Tom Addingtonb. 1919GBBritish Army soldier
- Crandell Addingtonb. 1938USAmerican businessman and poker player (1938–2024)
- David Addingtonb. 1957USAmerican lawyer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.9K | #6,355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,087 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #38,013 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #28,123 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #82,585 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Addington mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Addington, a place-name meaning 'Eadda's (or Eddi's) estate' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Addington?
- A machine transcription gives /ædɪŋtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Addington have the most bearers?
- Addington is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Addington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.