Bolton

At the 2020 census, 31,334 Americans bore the surname Bolton — 1,103rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,539.

By the numbers

People: 31,334
Rank: 1,103rd
How common: 1 in 9,539
Per 100,000: 10.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English Bodeltone (in the Domesday Book) etc., ultimately from Old English bolt, bold, botl, etc.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.6%
Black, not Hispanic 20.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bolton

John Bolton (born 1948)American lawyer and diplomat
Michael Bolton (born 1953)American singer-songwriter
Nancye Wynne Bolton (1916–2001)Australian tennis player
Ruthie Bolton (born 1967)American basketball player
John Gatenby Bolton (1922–1993)British-Australian astronomer
James Bolton (1735–1799)English naturalist, botanist, mycologist, and illustrator
Guy Bolton (1884–1979)British-American dramatist and playwright

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

Surnames like Bolton

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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.