Atherton

At the 2020 census, 6,382 Americans bore the surname Atherton — 5,270th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 46,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,382
Rank: 5,270th
How common: 1 in 46,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name Æþelhere + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Atherton

William Atherton (born 1947)American actor
Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948)American author
Rachel Atherton (born 1987)English cyclist
Gee Atherton (born 1985)English racing cyclist
Charles G. Atherton (1804–1853)American politician

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

Surnames like Atherton

Athey

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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.