Denton

26,745 people in the United States were counted with the surname Denton in the 2020 census, making it the 1,284th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,200.

By the numbers

People: 26,745
Rank: 1,284th
How common: 1 in 11,200
Per 100,000: 9.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English denu (“valley, den”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.9%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Denton

James Denton (born 1963)American actor
Jeremiah Denton (1924–2014)American Vietnam War POW and politician
Steve Denton (born 1956)American tennis player
Bill Denton (1911–1946)American artistic gymnast

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

Surnames like Denton

Also a first name

Denton has been given to 5,143 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1994. 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.