Moulton

At the 2020 census, 11,687 Americans bore the surname Moulton — 3,005th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,600.

By the numbers

People: 11,687
Rank: 3,005th
How common: 1 in 25,600
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name *Mūla + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Black, not Hispanic 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Moulton

Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908)American poet, story-writer and critic

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

Surnames like Moulton

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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.