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

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 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.