The D'ALTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	50,166	615	0.019	186
United States (1880 census)	10,375	580	0.021	207
Change since 1880	+39791	-35	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	3,744	395	0.023	229
United Kingdom	10,038	596	0.022	219

Top States for D'ALTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	3,904	190	0.055	552
California	3,201	1035	0.009	95
Ohio	3,199	363	0.028	282
Tennessee	3,026	258	0.053	532
North Carolina	2,892	382	0.036	359
Top States for D'ALTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	3,904	190	0.055	552
West Virginia	989	244	0.055	547
Tennessee	3,026	258	0.053	532
Utah	1,160	189	0.052	519
North Carolina	2,892	382	0.036	359

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

Classification and Origin of D'ALTON

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 D'ALTON 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 D'ALTON 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 D'ALTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	833	1.66
Mixed Race	677	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	346	0.69
Asian/Pacific	201	0.4
White (Caucasian)	44,342	88.39
Black/African American	3,767	7.51

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

Meaning of D'ALTON in historical publications

(origin: Local) Lerived from the town of Dalton, in Lancashire, England; a corruption of Dale-ton, the town in the dale; or D'Alton, abbreviated to Dalton, that is from the high or rocky hill.

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

DALTON. Parishes and places in cos. Lancaster, Northumberland, Durham, York, Dumfries, Lanark, &:c. Dalton Hall, in the first named co., had owners of its own name temp. Edw. III. From them sprang the Daltons of Thuruham.

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 D'ALTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as D'ALTON.

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.