Newton
At the 2020 census, 71,351 Americans bore the surname Newton — 452nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,189.
By the numbers
- People
- 71,351
- Rank
- 452nd
- How common
- 1 in 4,189
- Per 100,000
- 23.9
Where the name comes from
from Old English nēowa tūn (“new town”). Compare same construction in Italian Napoli and in Arabic نَابُلُس (“Nablus”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Newton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Newton
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)English mathematician and physicist
- Thandiwe Newton (born 1972)English actress
- Helmut Newton (1920–2004)German-Australian photographer
- Kathryn Newton (born 1997)American actress
- John Newton (1725–1807)Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist
- Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888)American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist
- Mika Newton (born 1986)Ukrainian singer
- Huey P. Newton (1942–1989)Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
People named Newton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Newton
Also a first name
Newton has been given to 8,182 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1919. 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.