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Hampton

in South Carolina

There are 1,258 people with the last name "Hampton" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Hampton 388
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  1. is 384th most common Perkins
  2. is 385th most common Greer
  3. is 386th most common Helms
  4. is 387th most common Burnett
  5. is 388th most common Hampton
  6. is 389th most common Bryan
  7. is 390th most common Dukes
  8. is 391st most common Bethea
  9. is 392nd most common Roach

Similar Names and Nicknames

Hampson, Hampshire, Hampel, Hamp, Hampe, Hamper, Hample, Hampl, Hampp, Hampsten

Most Common First Names for Hampton

James, Robert, John, William, Willie, Barbara, Mary, Joseph, Margaret, Patricia

Meaning & History

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the numerous places called Hampton, including the cities of Southampton and Northampton (both of which were originally simply Hamtun). These all share the final Old English element tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but the first is variously hām ‘homestead’, hamm ‘water meadow’, or hēan, weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’. This name is also established in Ireland, having first been taken there in the medieval period.

FOREBEARS The descendants of the clergyman Thomas Hampton, resident at Jamestown, VA, in 1630, lived in VA through three generations, multiplying their homesteads as the colony expanded and then branched into SC. This very common English name was brought independently to North America by many other bearers.

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