Holton

Holton is the 3,268th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,790 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,700.

By the numbers

People: 10,790
Rank: 3,268th
How common: 1 in 27,700
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

The first element has a wide variety of possible origins, among which Old English hōh (“promontory, hill-spur”), healh (“corner, nook”), holh (“hollow, depression”) or holt (“small wood”). The second element is tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Holton

Mark Holton (born 1958)American actor
Jim Holton (1951–1993)Scottish footballer
Gerald Holton (born 1922)American physicist

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

Surnames like Holton

Also a first name

Holton has been given to 1,060 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2021. 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.