Belton

Belton is the 4,180th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,208 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,208
Rank: 4,180th
How common: 1 in 36,400
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From an unexplained first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 62.0%
White, not Hispanic 27.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Belton

Also a first name

Belton has been given to 1,178 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1923. 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.