Pelton

Pelton is the 6,127th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,360 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 55,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,360
Rank: 6,127th
How common: 1 in 55,800
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Pelton

Lester Allan Pelton (1829–1908)American mechanical engineer

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

Surnames like Pelton

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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.