Burton

Burton is the 292nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 105,987 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,820.

By the numbers

People: 105,987
Rank: 292nd
How common: 1 in 2,820
Per 100,000: 35.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Usually from Old English burhtun (fortified farmstead, farmstead near or belonging to a stronghold or manor), from burh + tun.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.9%
Black, not Hispanic 26.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Burton

Tim Burton (born 1958)American filmmaker and artist
Richard Burton (1925–1984)Welsh actor
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar
Cliff Burton (1962–1986)American bassist
Robert Burton (1577–1640)English scholar
Hilarie Burton (born 1982)American actress
LeVar Burton (born 1957)American actor, director, and television host
Sylvanie Burton (born 1956)Dominican politician

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

Surnames like Burton

Also a first name

Burton has been given to 22,534 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1925. 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.