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The NORTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 61,805 485 0.023 229
United States (1880 census) 21,974 235 0.044 439
Change since 1880 +39831 -250 -0.021 -210
Other Countries
Australia 3,165 485 0.019 194
United Kingdom 12,404 474 0.027 270
Top States for NORTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 4,918 632 0.015 145
Florida 3,724 495 0.023 233
Texas 3,343 761 0.016 160
New York 3,205 492 0.017 169
Massachusetts 2,905 233 0.046 458
Top States for NORTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 998 199 0.078 783
Vermont 300 238 0.049 493
Massachusetts 2,905 233 0.046 458
Utah 956 244 0.043 428
New Hampshire 504 319 0.041 408

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

Classification and Origin of NORTON

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 NORTON 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 NORTON 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 NORTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 871 1.41
Mixed Race 828 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 674 1.09
Asian/Pacific 266 0.43
White (Caucasian) 55,414 89.66
Black/African American 3,758 6.08

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

Meaning of NORTON in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Norton, a town in Yorkshire, England. The north-town.

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


NORTON. The Gazetteer mentions between forty and fifty parishes, townships, &c., so called, and there are hundreds of farms and minor localities. The word means simply — the northern homestead or enclosure, and corresponds to Sutton, Easton, and Weston. The original name of Lord Grantley's family was Coigniers, until temp. Edw. II., when PiOger C. married the heiress of Norton, of Norton, co. York, and their son took the maternal name.

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 NORTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NORTON.

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 NORTON

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