The ASTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,743	8154	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	804	6513	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2939	-1641	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	708	2284	0.004	43
United Kingdom	6,864	913	0.015	149

Top States for ASTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	570	3946	0.003	27
California	523	5462	0.002	15
Pennsylvania	397	3869	0.003	32
Utah	197	1560	0.009	88
Ohio	169	8022	0.001	15
Top States for ASTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	197	1560	0.009	88
Idaho	59	3173	0.005	46
West Virginia	73	2955	0.004	40
Oklahoma	122	3756	0.004	35
Pennsylvania	397	3869	0.003	32

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ASTON

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 ASTON 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 ASTON 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 ASTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	173	4.62
Mixed Race	77	2.06
White (Hispanic)	75	2
Asian/Pacific	27	0.72
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.4
White (Caucasian)	3,376	90.2

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

Meaning of ASTON in historical publications

(origin: Sax. Local) A corruption of Eston or Easton, the east town.

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

ASTON. The Gazetteer of England contains nearly fifty Astons, and above twenty armorial coats are assigned to the name. Lord Aston's family descend from Aston, CO. Stafford in the XIII. cent. E"AT. ATE. ATTE. ATTEN. A common prefix to early surnames, to designate the locality of the bearer's residence, as Atte-Wood, by or near a wood ; AttTree, at the tree ; Attcn-Oke, near or at the oak, ka. The N mAtten was added for euphony before a voM'el. These were common forms in the fourteenth century. Subsequently At or Atte was softened to A, as A'Gate for At-Gate, ABroke for At- Brook, &e. Many names are so written do\l to the time of Elizabeth and later. In some instances the At or Att is still retained, as in Att■wood, Atwells, Atwater, Attree, &c. Sometimes the final N of Atten is made to coalesce with the name, though the Atte is di-opped, and hence we get such names as Noakes (Atten- Oke), Nash (Atten-Ash), &c. The following names with these prefixes are met with in medieval documents. Several of them are now extinct, but the others remain in forms variously modified. I shall add exilanatory words where necessary, but most of the names will be found in their proper places in the Dictionary. Ate or Atte — barre — berne (barn) — briggc (bridge) — brok (brook) — brug (bridge) — brugeende (at the bridge end) — bury — burn — chirche — chyrchene (at the church end, i.e., of the village) — churchehaye (churchyard) — cleyf (clift) — croch (See Crouch) — crundle — cumbe (See Combe) — dam (weir or river dam) — dene (SeeDeau) — dich (ditch) — di'ove (droveway for cattle) — dune (a down or bill) — elme (tree) — felde (field) — feu, fenne

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to ASTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ASTON.

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.