Kingston is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Kingston
No. of characters: 8
Origin: England
Meaning: The name of several towns in England signifying the king's town

How popular is Kingston?

Kingston is common in Papua New Guinea.

Kingston is ranked 14610 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Kingstons grew by 9.976544 per cent to 7033 since 2000 and ranked 4998 after elevating 37 spots. The last name was found in around 24 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 84.35 87.6
Black 9.77 8.41
Hispanic or Latino 3.11 1.75
Others 1.58 1.13
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.78 0.67
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.41 0.44
Kingston is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Guyana is ahead in terms of density. Around 36071 people have been found who wears Kingston as their family name. Kingston is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
3,712 Iceland10
82,942 Zimbabwe8
13,220 Thailand6
607,991 Indonesia5
59,967 Moldova4
11,480 Japan4
2,980 Malawi4
3,818 Zambia3
5,332 Estonia3
78,945 Argentina3
46,068 Philippines3
24,547 Saudi Arabia3
4,915 Panama3
4,164 Vietnam2
4,104 South Korea2
24,269 Peru2
20,837 Venezuela2
41,879 Turkey2
4,689 Maldives2
8,995 Uganda2
5,442 Turkmenistan2
31,767 Greece2
20,186 Kenya2
1,389 Barbados2
6,462 Ivory Coast2
34,572 Israel2
1,235 Belize2
23,344 Austria2
3,940 Ethiopia2
17,547 Colombia2
25,721 Egypt1
510 East Timor1
3,350 Fiji1
2,715 Gabon1
2,724 New Caledonia1
2,877 Cuba1
13,606 Senegal1
7,191 Afghanistan1
1,542 Andorra1
1,176 Antigua and Barbuda1
174,544 Czech Republic1
17,768 Pakistan1
10,190 Bahrain1
15,705 Cameroon1
34,581 Chile1
37,779 Serbia1
50,549 Georgia1
14,644 Tunisia1
4,435 Togo1
5,553 Taiwan1
5,872 Namibia1
215 Palau1
624 Solomon Islands1
21,562 Portugal1
1,433 Sierra Leone1
480 Micronesia1
8,268 Mauritius1
1,572 Macau1
7,941 Guatemala1
23,434 Burkina Faso1
48,575 Azerbaijan1
1,818 Guernsey1
3,071 Jersey1
2,361 United States Virgin Islands1
2,196 Liberia1
4,942 Libya1
696 Saint Kitts and Nevis1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
7,175 Singapore41
13,773 Denmark39
3,644 Trinidad and Tobago36
20,103 Norway33
43,662 Belgium30
40,421 Belarus27
545 Grenada26
4,169 Cyprus26
3,605 China12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
2,516 Hong Kong95
3,256 Qatar78
78,184 Italy67
36,203 Spain63
17,456 Switzerland63
51,036 Tanzania61
37,331 Netherlands58
43,380 Kazakhstan52
18,409 Sweden51
Countries with hundreds of Kingston:
6,705 South Africa968
3,402 Ghana879
49,984 India609
1,241 New Zealand589
19,380 Germany538
777 Wales485
770 Jamaica446
364 Guyana380
6,650 Malaysia304
17,962 Morocco268
6,781 Sri Lanka261
44,967 Brazil238
47,714 France208
3,168 Scotland203
28,734 Poland191
1,439 Northern Ireland191
19,046 Mexico183
73,697 Russia174
6,720 United Arab Emirates145
45,129 Ukraine113
3,572 Kuwait104
Countries with thousands of Kingston:
4,660 United States8,516
1,208 England6,415
6,131 Nigeria3,821
886 Australia3,511
2,172 Canada2,320
495 Ireland1,529
715 Papua New Guinea1,494
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

John Kingston worked as workman and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 29 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Argyle and arrived on June 26, 1849. Shoemaker Abraham Kingston, Gentleman Arth.M. Kingston, Immigrant John Kingston, Sally Kingston, aged 24, William Kingston, aged 12, John Kingston, aged 29, 20 years old Samuel Kingston, Farmer Thomas Kingston, and 20 other Kingston around 45.83% of whom were workman while others worked as gentleman and servant, farmer migrated to US.

Comments

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Chantay Brune
The origin of the name is Germanic etymology of the name comes from the agglutination of Anglo-Saxon king words and town, which means the city of King name specifies the location of the ancestral home, located on land Royal.

Kingston Namesakes

  • James Kingston, Golfer
  • Sean Kingston, Singer
  • Alex Kingston, Actress
  • Russ Kingston, Film actor
  • Sean Kingston, Singer
  • Alex Kingston, Actress
  • Russ Kingston, Film actor
  • Belle Kingston Aykroyd, Dan Aykroyd's daughter
  • Beryl Kingston, Author
  • Beverley Kingston, Author

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