Horton
80,807 people in the United States were counted with the surname Horton in the 2020 census, making it the 387th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,699.
By the numbers
- People
- 80,807
- Rank
- 387th
- How common
- 1 in 3,699
- Per 100,000
- 27.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
The majority of the English toponyms derive from Old English horh (“mud, slime”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). The village in Gloucestershire derives from Old English heorot (“stag, hart”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Horton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Horton
- Mack Horton (born 1996)Australian freestyle swimmer
- Edward Everett Horton (1886–1970)American actor
- Big Walter Horton (1921–1981)American blues harmonica player
- Peter Horton (born 1953)American actor and director
- Jonathan Horton (born 1985)American gymnast
- Johnny Horton (1925–1960)American singer
- Tim Horton (1930–1974)Canadian ice hockey player and businessman
- Max Kennedy Horton (1883–1951)Royal Navy admiral
People named Horton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Horton
Also a first name
Horton has been given to 616 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1922. 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.