Walton

Walton is the 451st most common surname in the United States, shared by 71,361 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,189.

By the numbers

People: 71,361
Rank: 451st
How common: 1 in 4,189
Per 100,000: 23.9

Where the name comes from

Variously from Old English weall (“wall”) or wealh (“Celt, Welshman”) + tūn (“settlement”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 57.6%
Black, not Hispanic 33.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
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 Walton

Ernest Walton (1903–1995)Irish physicist and Nobel laureate
Sam Walton (1918–1992)American businessman
Bill Walton (1952–2024)American basketball player and sportscaster
Alice Walton (born 1949)American heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
William Walton (1902–1983)English composer
Izaak Walton (1593–1683)English author and biographer
Jim Walton (born 1948)American businessman
S. Robson Walton (born 1944)American billionaire and heir

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

Surnames like Walton

Also a first name

Walton has been given to 5,899 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. 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.