Linton

Linton is the 2,554th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,801 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,700.

By the numbers

People: 13,801
Rank: 2,554th
How common: 1 in 21,700
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From either Old English līn (“flax”) or lind (“lime tree”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.5%
Black, not Hispanic 23.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Linton

Ralph Linton (1893–1953)American anthropologist
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898)English novelist and journalist
Ernest Linton (1880–1957)Canadian soccer player
William Richardson Linton (1850–1908)botanist and cleric
William James Linton (1812–1897)English-born American artist and botanist

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

Surnames like Linton

Also a first name

Linton has been given to 2,360 American babies as a first name since 1883, 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.