Shelton

At the 2020 census, 85,839 Americans bore the surname Shelton — 359th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,482.

By the numbers

People: 85,839
Rank: 359th
How common: 1 in 3,482
Per 100,000: 28.7

Where the name comes from

From Old English.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.8%
Black, not Hispanic 20.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Shelton

Blake Shelton (born 1976)American country music singer and television personality
Marley Shelton (born 1974)American actress
Simon Shelton (1966–2018)British actor
Ben Shelton (born 2002)American tennis player
Luton Shelton (1985–2021)Jamaican footballer
Lynn Shelton (1965–2020)American filmmaker
Deborah Shelton (born 1948)American actress and beauty queen
Gilbert Shelton (born 1940)American cartoonist

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

Surnames like Shelton

Also a first name

Shelton has been given to 12,145 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1972. 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.