Appleton

At the 2020 census, 5,293 Americans bore the surname Appleton — 6,197th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,293
Rank: 6,197th
How common: 1 in 56,500
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English æppel + -tun, equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Appleton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.9%
Black, not Hispanic 13.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Appleton

Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965)English physicist
Natalie Appleton (born 1973)Canadian singer
Nicole Appleton (born 1974)Canadian singer
Emma Appleton (born 1991)British actress
Michael Appleton (born 1975)English association football player and manager

People named Appleton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Appleton

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.