Herrington
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Herrington, Durham, meaning ‘estate associated with Here’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Herrington is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 14,498 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Herrington is also written Херрингтон in Cyrillic.
- GHGhana≈1 in 6.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 14Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 419 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
14,498 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Herrington in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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 Herrington, Durham, meaning ‘estate associated with Here’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Herrington is found
(measured from records)Herrington 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 14,498 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Herrington | 419 |
| GH Ghana | #547 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Herrington | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Herrington | 143 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Herrington | 118 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Herrington | 83 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Herrington | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Herrington | 23 |
14,498 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)Herrington is also recorded in 2 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 a place-name, probably Herington; first attested Walter de Herindenn c1200 ArchC vi
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, 1. habitational name from Herrington in County Durham, possibly so named from an unattested Old English personal name Hyra{ftom Old Enlish hyra ‘servant’) -I- -ing- denoting association + denu ‘woodland’, ‘pasture’. 2. Possibly a variant of Harrington or a hypercorrected form of Errington.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)- John S. Herringtonb. 1939USAmerican politician
- John Herringtonb. 1958USAmerican astronaut
- Billy Herringtonb. 1969USAmerican pornographic actor (1969–2018)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Herrington mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Herrington, Durham, meaning ‘estate associated with Here’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Herrington?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Herrington, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herrington. After it come Ghana, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Herrington?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,498 people named Herrington in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Herrington compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Herrington is the 547th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herringtonThe 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, “Herrington” — ranked 2434th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.