Barton
At the 2020 census, 64,761 Americans bore the surname Barton — 506th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,615.
By the numbers
- People
- 64,761
- Rank
- 506th
- How common
- 1 in 4,615
- Per 100,000
- 21.7
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English bere (“barley”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Barton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Barton
- Edmund Barton (1849–1920)Australian politician, first Prime Minister of Australia and founding justice of the High Court of Australia
- Derek Barton (1918–1998)English organic chemist
- Mischa Barton (born 1986)British-American actress and model
- Joey Barton (born 1982)English professional football manager and former player
- Clara Barton (1821–1912)American Civil War nurse
- Tony Barton (1937–1993)English footballer and manager
- Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815)American physician, professor, and botanist
- Will Barton (born 1991)American basketball player
People named Barton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Barton
Also a first name
Barton has been given to 9,371 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1960. 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.