Chilton

5,814 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chilton in the 2020 census, making it the 5,739th most common in the country. That is about one person in 51,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,814
Rank: 5,739th
How common: 1 in 51,400
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

From Old English ċilda tūn, a compound of ċilda + tūn (“town”). The name of Chilton, Oxfordshire is attested under various spellings in Medieval Latin texts of the 11th and 12th centuries: Cilda tun, Childatun, Chiltune, Chiltuna, Ciltone, Cilletone (in the Domesday Book), and Childestuna.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Chilton

Max Chilton (born 1991)racecar driver
Alex Chilton (1950–2010)American musician
Kevin P. Chilton (born 1954)United States general and astronaut
Allenby Chilton (1918–1996)English footballer and manager
Mary-Dell Chilton (1939–2026)American biologist
Tom Chilton (born 1985)British racecar driver

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

Surnames like Chilton

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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.