Upton

At the 2020 census, 13,224 Americans bore the surname Upton — 2,662nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,224
Rank: 2,662nd
How common: 1 in 22,600
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English upp (“up”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Upton

Kate Upton (born 1992)American model and actress
Fred Upton (born 1953)United States Representative from Michigan
Justin Upton (born 1987)American baseball player
Francis Robbins Upton (1852–1921)American physicist

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

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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.