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Dutton

Dutton is the 2,173rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,262 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People
16,262
Rank
2,173rd
How common
1 in 18,400
Per 100,000
5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

The village in Cheshire is from Old English dūn (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), while the civil parish in Lancashire is from the Old English personal name Dudda + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Notable people called Dutton

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

Surnames like Dutton

Also a first name

Dutton has been given to 1,501 American babies as a first name since 2018, peaking in 2023. 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.