Hutton
At the 2020 census, 17,542 Americans bore the surname Hutton — 2,015th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 17,542
- Rank
- 2,015th
- How common
- 1 in 17,000
- Per 100,000
- 5.9
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English hōh (“ridge, spur”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Hutton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Hutton
- James Hutton (1726–1797)Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist;
- Timothy Hutton (born 1960)American actor and director
- Betty Hutton (1921–2007)American actress
- Alan Hutton (born 1984)Scottish association football player
- Lauren Hutton (born 1943)American model, actress, and entrepreneur
- Brian G. Hutton (1935–2014)American actor, film director
- Barbara Hutton (1912–1979)American philanthropist and socialite
- Charles Hutton (1737–1823)English mathematician
People named Hutton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Hutton
Also a first name
Hutton has been given to 744 American babies as a first name since 1987, peaking in 2025. 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.