Norton
Norton is the 556th most common surname in the United States, shared by 59,666 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,010.
By the numbers
- People
- 59,666
- Rank
- 556th
- How common
- 1 in 5,010
- Per 100,000
- 20.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Norton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Norton
- Edward Norton (born 1969)American actor
- Graham Norton (born 1963)Irish comedian, actor and television host
- Emperor Norton (1811–1880)San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States
- Ken Norton (1943–2013)American boxer
- Andre Norton (1912–2005)American writer of science fiction and fantasy
- Caroline Norton (1808–1877)English feminist, social reformer, and author, editor
- James Norton (born 1985)British actor
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (born 1937)American lawyer and politician
People named Norton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Norton
Also a first name
Norton has been given to 2,310 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1928. 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.