as a Last Name
- 896
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hurston
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name, probably from either of two places in Devon or one West Sussex so named. Hurston in Chagford, Devon is named with the Old English personal name Heort or heort ‘hart’ + tūn ‘settlement’; Hurston in Whitestone, Devon has the same first element + þorn ‘thorn tree’; and Hurston in Storrington, West Sussex is named from Old English hyrst ‘wooded hill’ + tūn.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 896
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Hurston per capita
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