Morton
58,028 people in the United States were counted with the surname Morton in the 2020 census, making it the 570th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,151.
By the numbers
- People
- 58,028
- Rank
- 570th
- How common
- 1 in 5,151
- Per 100,000
- 19.4
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh”) + tūn (“settlement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Morton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Morton
- Levi P. Morton (1824–1920)vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893
- Samantha Morton (born 1977)British actress
- William T. G. Morton (1819–1868)United States dental surgeon
- Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941)American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
- Joe Morton (born 1947)American actor
- Kate Morton (born 1976)Australian novelist
- Tyler Morton (born 2002)English association football player
- Samuel George Morton (1799–1851)American physician and naturalist
People named Morton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Morton
Also a first name
Morton has been given to 12,341 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1923. 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.