Ashton
At the 2020 census, 11,812 Americans bore the surname Ashton — 2,981st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 11,812
- Rank
- 2,981st
- How common
- 1 in 25,300
- Per 100,000
- 4.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English æsc (“ash (tree species)”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Ashton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Ashton
- Catherine Ashton (born 1956)British politician
- Frederick Ashton (1904–1988)British dancer and choreographer
- Dean Ashton (born 1983)English association football player
- John Ashton (1948–2024)American actor
- Zawe Ashton (born 1984)British actress
- Juli Ashton (born 1968)American pornographic actress & TV host
- Tony Ashton (1946–2001)British musician
- Sylvia Ashton (1880–1940)actress
People named Ashton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Ashton
Also a first name
Ashton has been given to 107,927 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2004. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.