Covington

loc · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Covington is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Covington, Lanarkshire ('Colban's farmstead'), or from Covington, Cambridgeshire ('farmstead associated with Cofa').

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 12K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 270K
  • KYCayman Islands1 in 170

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈27K ●

across 4 countries

Sources
401 ●

268K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 12K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

From Covington, Lanarkshire ('Colban's farmstead'), or from Covington, Cambridgeshire ('farmstead associated with Cofa').

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Covington is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States27,068238K rec.1 in 12K27KCovington401
GB United Kingdom1,0428K rec.——Covington81
KY Cayman Islands67318 rec.——Covington2
LA Laos45811 rec.——Covington1
CN China156379 rec.——Covington8
IN India118183 rec.——Covington12
RU Russia92566 rec.——Covington8
CA Canada183.2K rec.——Covington46
BE Belgium657 rec.1 in 2M6—6
PL Poland5292 rec.1 in 7.7M5—7
AU Australia54.3K rec.——Covington57
PK Pakistan5195 rec.——Covington1

Roughly 27K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 12K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.7M74%
  • French1.5K1%
  • Finnish6801%
  • Lao4581%
  • English (Ghana)1991%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,650,65474%
French1,5351%
Finnish6801%
Lao4581%
English (Ghana)1991%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Covington is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname220 records spelled Covington4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Ковингтон

  • a separate name76 records spelled Covington2 spellings in the group

    Also written קובינגטון

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02.557.510194019601980200020209 · 2024

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Covington in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1924–2025
Yearrecords
19246
20177
20185
20225
20236
20249
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 7 years between 1924–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Leonard Covington, b. 1768James Harry Covington, b. 1870Covington Scott Littleton, b. 1933Joey Covington, b. 1945Julie Covington, b. 1946Harold Covington, b. 1953Carter Covington, b. 1973Aaron Covington, b. 1984Colby Covington, b. 1988Robert Covington, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Covington
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201027K#1,298
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202026K#1,317
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200025K#1,272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202096#47,857
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202039#47,857
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20249—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20177—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20086#90,753
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20256—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20236—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19246—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 19 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Covington?
We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Covington (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Covington have the most bearers?
We estimate about 27 thousand people bear Covington in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled covington.
What does the name Covington mean?
Recorded meaning: From Covington, Lanarkshire ('Colban's farmstead'), or from Covington, Cambridgeshire ('farmstead associated with Cofa').
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About this data

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