The DORTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,728	10737	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	447	10568	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+2281	-169	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	4	178171	0	0
United Kingdom	73	25097	0	2

Top States for DORTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	330	3031	0.005	47
North Carolina	274	3963	0.003	34
Tennessee	255	3389	0.004	45
California	180	15488	0.001	5
Ohio	176	8643	0.002	16
Top States for DORTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	330	3031	0.005	47
Tennessee	255	3389	0.004	45
Kentucky	147	3691	0.004	36
North Carolina	274	3963	0.003	34
West Virginia	56	3837	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of DORTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DORTON 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 DORTON 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 DORTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	178	6.52
Mixed Race	26	0.95
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.51
White (Hispanic)	11	0.4
Asian/Pacific	6	0.22
White (Caucasian)	2,493	91.39

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

Similar names to DORTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DORTON.

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.