Wilton

2,934 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wilton in the 2020 census, making it the 10,446th most common in the country. That is about one person in 102,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,934
Rank: 10,446th
How common: 1 in 102,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From either Old English welig (“willow”) or wella (“spring, stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.4%
Hispanic or Latino 5.7%
Black, not Hispanic 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wilton

Penelope Wilton (born 1946)English actress
William Wilton (1865–1920)British football manager of Rangers FC
Spencer Wilton (born 1973)British equestrian

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

Surnames like Wilton

Also a first name

Wilton has been given to 8,694 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. 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.