Dayton

8,138 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dayton in the 2020 census, making it the 4,221st most common in the country. That is about one person in 36,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,138
Rank: 4,221st
How common: 1 in 36,700
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Most of the placenames are derived from the surname; or another place named Dayton, that in turn is derived from the surname.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Dayton

Mark Dayton (born 1947)40th Governor of Minnesota; former United States Senator from Minnesota
Jonathan Dayton (1760–1824)American politician from New Jersey
Danny Dayton (1923–1999)American actor, television director
William L. Dayton (1807–1864)American politician

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

Surnames like Dayton

Day
Daye

Also a first name

Dayton has been given to 16,395 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2008. 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.