Hampton

Hampton: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “home settlement”
Origin: Old English
Say it: HAMP-tun · 2 syllables
Used for: Boys (95% of all uses)

From an English surname and place name derived from Old English ham 'home, estate' and tun 'settlement.' It is best known as a transferred surname-style given name.

English names Surname-style names

How popular is Hampton?

202441.0 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

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Babies named Hampton in 2024135

2024 rank#1,518 boys

Peak year1881

Total US babies since 18804,877

Hampton is rising: use over the last five years is 1.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Hampton

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Wesleywestern meadow · Old English
Westonwestern settlement · Old English
Blakeblack; pale · Old English
Edwardwealthy guardian · Old English
Ashtonash tree town · Old English
Kingstonking's town · Old English
Brandonbroom-covered hill · Old English
Bentleybent-grass clearing · Old English

Hampton questions

What does the name Hampton mean?

Hampton means "home settlement". It comes from Old English. From an English surname and place name derived from Old English ham 'home, estate' and tun 'settlement.' It is best known as a transferred surname-style given name.

Is Hampton a boy or girl name?

Hampton is mainly a boy's name in US records (96% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Hampton?

135 US babies were named Hampton in 2024. Its peak year was 1881.

How do you pronounce Hampton?

Hampton is usually pronounced HAMP-tun.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.