Herrington
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Herrington, Durham, meaning ‘estate associated with Here’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɛɹɪŋtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Herrington is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 23K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 31K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 419 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
14,498 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
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 Herrington, Durham, meaning ‘estate associated with Here’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(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 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Herrington | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Herrington | 143 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Herrington | 118 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Herrington | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Herrington | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | 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)
- James Herringtonb. 1824USAmerican politician
- Arthur William Sidney Herringtonb. 1891USAmerican engineer (1891–1970); collected art with his wife Nell Ray Clarke Herrington (1891-1966)
- David Herringtonb. 1901GBBritish cinematographer
- John S. Herringtonb. 1939USAmerican politician
- John Herringtonb. 1958USAmerican astronaut
- Billy Herringtonb. 1969USAmerican pornographic actor (1969–2018)
- Daniel Herringtonb. 1986USAmerican racing driver
- Danielle Herringtonb. 1993USAmerican model
- Diesel Herringtonb. 2004AUAustralian association football player
- Lucas Herringtonb. 2007AUAustralian soccer player
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,491 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,599 |
| 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 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].
- How do you pronounce Herrington?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛɹɪŋtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Herrington have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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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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” — the 547th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.