Melton

At the 2020 census, 46,858 Americans bore the surname Melton — 719th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,379.

By the numbers

People: 46,858
Rank: 719th
How common: 1 in 6,379
Per 100,000: 15.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English middel (“middle”) + tūn (“enclosure”). Compare Middleton and Milton.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 14.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Melton

Charles Melton (born 1991)American actor
De'Anthony Melton (born 1998)American basketball player
Kate Melton (born 1992)American actress
J. Gordon Melton (born 1942)American religious scholar

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

Surnames like Melton

Also a first name

Melton has been given to 4,235 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1921. 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.