Hampden
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Hampden’, Buckinghamshire; place name means ‘valley with an enclosure’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hampdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hampden is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Chile.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 1 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Hampden’, Buckinghamshire; place name means ‘valley with an enclosure’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hampden counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | — | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | listed | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | — | 1 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hampden is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Bucks., so called from OE hamm water meadow + denu valley.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, county, MA; town, ME
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Hampden, Buckinghamshire; first attested Alexander de Hamden, de Hampeden 1274 FFO, 1275 RH (Bk).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- John Hampdenb. 1594GBEnglish politician (1595–1643)
- Richard Hampdenb. 1631GBEnglish politician; (1631-1695)
- John Hampdenb. 1653GBEnglish politician, died 1696
- John Hampdenb. 1690GBBritish politician; (died 1754)
- Renn Dickson Hampdenb. 1793BBEnglish bishop of Hereford and theologian
- John Hampden Pleasantsb. 1797USAmerican journalist and businessman (1797-1846)
- Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampdenb. 1822GBBritish admiral (1822-1886)
- Charles Hampden Bartonb. 1848AUpolitician and grazier in New South Wales, Australia (1848–1912)
- John Hampden Burnhamb. 1860CACanadian politician
- Walter Hampdenb. 1879USAmerican actor (1879-1955)
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Hampden mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Hampden’, Buckinghamshire; place name means ‘valley with an enclosure’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hampden?
- A machine transcription gives /hampdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hampden have the most bearers?
- Hampden is most frequently recorded in Chile.
What do you want to know about Hampden?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hampdenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hampden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.