as a Last Name
- 59,751
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Houston
Meaning & Origins
Northern Irish: 1. habitational name from a place near Glasgow, Scotland, named with the genitive case of the medieval personal name Hugh + Middle English tune, toun ‘settlement’, ‘village’ (Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’). The landlord in question is a certain Hugo de Paduinan, who held the place c.1160. The Scottish surname is common in Ulster. 2. Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uisdein, Mac Uistein (see McCutcheon).
| 552nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 59,751
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Houston per capita
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