Helton

Helton is the 1,456th most common surname in the United States, shared by 23,871 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,500.

By the numbers

People: 23,871
Rank: 1,456th
How common: 1 in 12,500
Per 100,000: 8.0

Where the name comes from

From helde ‘slope’ + tun ‘farmstead or settlement’. The Old English surname is said to have originated in Cumbria, England. The motto is Artibus et armis which means by art and arms. The name could be a derivative of Hilton or Elton.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Helton

Helton (born 1978)Brazilian footballer
Percy Helton (1894–1971)American actor
Todd Helton (born 1973)American Hall of Fame baseball player

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

Surnames like Helton

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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.