The COLTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,313	5102	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	2,480	2453	0.005	50
Change since 1880	+3833	-2649	-0.003	-27
Other Countries
Australia	164	9064	0.001	10
United Kingdom	1,770	3258	0.004	39

Top States for COLTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	677	4398	0.002	20
New York	556	3546	0.003	29
Florida	451	4587	0.003	28
Georgia	335	2868	0.004	41
Oregon	283	1528	0.008	83
Top States for COLTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	246	1265	0.011	110
Oregon	283	1528	0.008	83
Vermont	48	2179	0.008	79
Idaho	86	2158	0.007	66
Maine	63	3218	0.005	49

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

Classification and Origin of COLTON

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 COLTON 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 COLTON 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 COLTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	669	10.6
White (Hispanic)	167	2.65
Mixed Race	95	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.62
Asian/Pacific	34	0.54
White (Caucasian)	5,309	84.1

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

Similar names to COLTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLTON.

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.