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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,555,718 Historical Documents with Hampton on Ancestry
- 561,584 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 327,332 Census and Voter Lists
- 68,932 Military Records
- 22,954 Immigration Records
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Number of Hampton families
 248 - 494  83 - 247 |
 1 - 82  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hampton families
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340 - 678 114 - 339 |
1 - 113 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hampton families
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115 - 227 39 - 114 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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- 698
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