Hampton Family History
Hampton Name Meaning
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 tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but the first is variously ham
‘homestead’, hamm ‘water meadow’, or hean, weak
dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of
heah ‘high’. This name is also established in Ireland,
having first been taken there in the medieval period.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hampton
Name Distribution of Hampton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hampton families
 248 - 494  83 - 247 |
 1 - 82  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hampton families
|
340 - 678 114 - 339 |
1 - 113 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hampton families
|
115 - 227 39 - 114 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hampton Family Origin
Hampton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hampton
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Hampton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Hampton Civil War Service Records
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