Huddleston

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Yorkshire (see Huddleston with Newthorpe), from the Old English personal name *Hūdel + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Huddleston (countable and uncountable, plural Huddlestons)

1. (countable) A surname from Old English.
2. (uncountable) A placename, from the surname:
   1. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Oregon County, Missouri, United States.
   3. An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Virginia, United States.

Derived terms

• Huddleston with Newthorpe

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Huddleston is the 2102^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 17231 individuals. Huddleston is most common among White (83.91%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Huddleston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 211.