Haughton
loc · Latin script
Meaning: person from Haughton, various English places, mainly meaning ‘farmstead by a corner of land’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haughton is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6Kas Houghton(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.6Kas Houghton
- CACanada≈1 in 17Kas Houghton
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Haughton itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- 1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 named Houghton, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Houghton in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
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 Haughton, various English places, mainly meaning ‘farmstead by a corner of land’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haughton 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 | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Houghton | 10 |
| US United States | — | 11,184as Houghton | 1 in 30K | 11K | Houghton | 408 |
| GB United Kingdom | #513 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | listed | Houghton | 241 |
| AU Australia | #931 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Houghton | 160 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Houghton | 147 |
| NZ New Zealand | #730 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Houghton | 100 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Houghton | 23 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 38 | 1 in 134K | 38 | — | 3 |
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 hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Haughton is also recorded in 5 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 Haughton (Cheshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Sussex) or Haughton le Skerne (Durham); first attested Robert de Haleghton 1242 AssSt
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from any of various places called Houghton. Nearly all, including those in Cheshire, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Shropshire, and Staffordshire, are named from Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; however, in the case of one in Nottinghamshire, the first element is Old English hoh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, in many cases of English origin, but in some a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hEachain (see Haughn) or (in County Tipperary) of 6 hEachtair ‘descendant of Eachtair’, probably a Gaelic form of the personal name Hector.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, places so called. Nearly all, including those in Ches., Co. Durham, Lancs., Northumb., Shrops., and Staffs., get the name from OE halh nook, recess (see Hale i) + tun en¬ closure, settlement; in the case of one in Notts., however, the first element is OE hoh spur of a hill (see Houghton). Hathorne see Hawthorn Haulbrook see Holbrook Hatje see Habbert Haupl see Head
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Irish, This English Quaker toponymic, quite common in Ireland as such, has also been used as an anglicized form of Ó hEacháin, Haughan; and even of Ó hEachtair, now Hoctor and earlier O'Haghtir, formerly an important family in north Tipperary. Woulfe equates the forename Eachtair with Hector. Bibl. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- James Haughton Langstonb. 1795GBBritish landowner and politician; (1796-1863)
- Haughton Forrestb. 1826AUAustralian artist (1826-1925)
- Haughton Lennoxb. 1850CACanadian politician (1850-1927)
- Fred Thompsonb. 1910NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand rower, 1908-1971
- Colin Haughtonb. 1972GBbadminton player
- Gregory Haughtonb. 1973JMJamaican 400 metres sprinter
- Rashad Haughtonb. 1977USAmerican film director
- Aaliyahb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican R&B singer (1979–2001)
- David Haughtonb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
- Nick Haughtonb. 1994GBFootballer (born 1994)
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,129 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,828 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 38 | #2,537 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Haughton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Haughton, various English places, mainly meaning ‘farmstead by a corner of land’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Haughton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Houghton in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Haughton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haughton is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 134 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Haughton?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 38 people named Haughton, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Haughton compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Haughton is the 513th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haughtonThe 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, “Haughton” — the 513th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.