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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

'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.

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

Potential typos for D'ALTON

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