Carleton

Carleton is the 7,981st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,980 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 75,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,980
Rank: 7,981st
How common: 1 in 75,100
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Carleton

Guy Carleton (1724–1808)Governor of the Province of Quebec
Gillian Carleton (born 1989)Canadian track cyclist
Jesse Carleton (1862–1921)Amateur golfer

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

Surnames like Carleton

Also a first name

Carleton has been given to 4,839 American babies as a first name since 1880, 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.