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The ORTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,246 5154 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,617 3587 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +4629 -1567 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 426 3711 0.003 26
United Kingdom 3,678 1694 0.008 80
Top States for ORTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 843 293 0.038 377
California 521 5501 0.002 15
New York 290 6817 0.002 15
Florida 265 7380 0.002 17
Texas 265 7237 0.001 13
Top States for ORTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 843 293 0.038 377
Idaho 169 1037 0.013 131
Oregon 261 1665 0.008 76
Vermont 38 2757 0.006 62
Colorado 229 2463 0.005 53

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ORTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ORTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ORTON in Utah than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ORTON by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ORTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ORTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ORTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ORTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 147 2.35
White (Hispanic) 100 1.6
Mixed Race 81 1.3
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.59
Asian/Pacific 33 0.53
White (Caucasian) 5,848 93.63

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ORTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ORTON in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the town of Orton, in Westmoreland, England. Gaelic, Ord, a hill of a round form and steep, and ton, a town a fortress.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to ORTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ORTON

The following words are slight variants of ORTON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.