Partington
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Partington, Greater Manchester, ‘settlement associated with Pearta’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɑɹtɪŋtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Partington is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 222K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.9M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 222K (inferred from the name graph)
1,497 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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 Partington, Greater Manchester, ‘settlement associated with Pearta’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Partington 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 | 1,497 | 1 in 222K | 1.5K | Partington | 6 |
| ES Spain | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
1,497 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Partington 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, from Partington, Cheshire; first attested Henry de Partinton 1260 AssCh
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Parramon Catalan: from a contracted form of the given names Pere (see Peter) + Ramon (see Raymond). place in Greater Manchester, so called from OE Peartingtun ‘settlement (OE tun) associated with *Pearta’, a personal name not independently recorded.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, place in Greater Manchester, so called from OE Peartingtun ‘settlement (OE tun) associated with *Pearta , a personal name not independently recorded.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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 Herbert Evelyn Partingtonb. 1843GBEnglish-American painter (1843–1899)
- William Partingtonb. 1854NZphotographer from New Zealand (1854-1940)
- James Edge-Partingtonb. 1854British anthropologist and collector (1854–1930)
- Blanche Partingtonb. 1866USjournalist
- Gertrude Partington Albrightb. 1874USAmerican etcher, oil painter, printmaker (1874–1959)
- Rex Partingtonb. 1924USAmerican actor and director (1924-2006)
- Marian Partingtonb. 1948English writer
- Jonathan Partingtonb. 1955GBBritish mathematician
- Adrian Partingtonb. 1958GBMusic conductor and organist
- Joe Partingtonb. 1990GBEnglish footballer (born 1990)
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,474 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,447 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,137 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #69,525 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #154,678 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #181,084 |
| 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 Partington mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Partington, Greater Manchester, ‘settlement associated with Pearta’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Partington?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɑɹtɪŋtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Partington have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Partington, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled partington.
- Where is Partington most common?
- Partington is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 222 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Partington?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,497 people named Partington in 2010, about 1 in 222 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/partingtonThe 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, “Partington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.