Sutton

86,836 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sutton in the 2020 census, making it the 351st most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,442.

By the numbers

People: 86,836
Rank: 351st
How common: 1 in 3,442
Per 100,000: 29.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.0%
Black, not Hispanic 21.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Sutton

Chris Sutton (born 1973)English footballer and manager
May Sutton (1886–1975)US tennis player
Richard S. Sutton (born 1950)Canadian computer scientist
Christopher Sutton (born 1984)Australian road bicycle racer
Antony C. Sutton (1925–2002)British writer
Walter Sutton (1877–1916)American geneticist
Joachim Sutton (born 1995)Danish rower
Chloe Sutton (born 1992)American swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games gold medalist

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

Surnames like Sutton

Also a first name

Sutton has been given to 20,017 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2025. 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.