Walton Surname
Approximately 156,730 people bear this surname
Walton Surname Definition:
(English) belonging to Walton (common) = 1 the Farmstead or Hamlet enclosed by, or situate near, a Wall [Old English w(e)all, a wall + tún, a farm, etc.] 2 the Farmstead or Hamlet by the Wood [Old English w(e)ald, a wood] 3 the Welshmen’s or Serfs’ Place [Old English w(e)ala, genit.
Read More About This SurnameWalton Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 95,379 | 1:3,800 | 411 |
| England | 36,433 | 1:1,529 | 170 |
| Australia | 8,743 | 1:3,088 | 427 |
| Canada | 5,947 | 1:6,196 | 905 |
| South Africa | 1,696 | 1:31,944 | 4,092 |
| New Zealand | 1,522 | 1:2,975 | 456 |
| Scotland | 982 | 1:5,452 | 909 |
| Jamaica | 850 | 1:3,376 | 495 |
| Wales | 791 | 1:3,912 | 423 |
| Ireland | 432 | 1:10,900 | 1,391 |
| Argentina | 403 | 1:106,063 | 8,979 |
| France | 256 | 1:259,464 | 40,012 |
| Nigeria | 256 | 1:691,964 | 32,018 |
| Cayman Islands | 251 | 1:255 | 37 |
| Barbados | 245 | 1:1,173 | 271 |
| Spain | 196 | 1:238,531 | 15,520 |
| Thailand | 181 | 1:390,267 | 68,497 |
| Germany | 156 | 1:516,061 | 43,667 |
| Northern Ireland | 150 | 1:12,300 | 1,807 |
| Chile | 129 | 1:136,562 | 4,806 |
| Guyana | 118 | 1:6,460 | 1,095 |
| Zimbabwe | 94 | 1:164,237 | 20,345 |
| Mexico | 93 | 1:1,334,690 | 15,285 |
| Malaysia | 75 | 1:393,256 | 20,576 |
| Panama | 66 | 1:59,277 | 2,728 |
| Portugal | 66 | 1:157,852 | 6,835 |
| Nicaragua | 64 | 1:94,080 | 1,835 |
| Belize | 63 | 1:5,642 | 954 |
| Sweden | 57 | 1:172,750 | 11,943 |
| Netherlands | 52 | 1:324,753 | 37,631 |
| Bahamas | 49 | 1:7,995 | 667 |
| Luxembourg | 48 | 1:12,095 | 2,127 |
| Singapore | 47 | 1:117,185 | 4,783 |
| Belgium | 46 | 1:249,927 | 30,800 |
| Isle of Man | 44 | 1:1,950 | 371 |
| Brazil | 43 | 1:4,978,473 | 128,213 |
| India | 42 | 1:18,263,461 | 278,402 |
| Jersey | 36 | 1:2,756 | 488 |
| Colombia | 32 | 1:1,492,940 | 10,821 |
| Guernsey | 29 | 1:2,222 | 539 |
| Hungary | 29 | 1:338,492 | 24,545 |
| Botswana | 28 | 1:78,105 | 13,263 |
| Switzerland | 28 | 1:293,318 | 23,433 |
| Liberia | 27 | 1:163,279 | 11,522 |
| Qatar | 25 | 1:94,320 | 10,875 |
| Philippines | 24 | 1:4,218,259 | 160,165 |
| Andorra | 23 | 1:3,645 | 702 |
| China | 23 | 1:59,448,764 | 3,236 |
| Norway | 23 | 1:223,578 | 24,793 |
| Venezuela | 22 | 1:1,372,913 | 18,810 |
| Austria | 17 | 1:500,908 | 47,931 |
| Honduras | 16 | 1:551,028 | 3,526 |
| Cyprus | 14 | 1:63,205 | 6,078 |
| Ghana | 13 | 1:2,078,515 | 11,540 |
| Solomon Islands | 13 | 1:44,618 | 8,903 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 13 | 1:104,921 | 6,882 |
| Italy | 11 | 1:5,559,699 | 110,230 |
| Denmark | 10 | 1:564,472 | 34,222 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 10 | 1:11,038 | 1,555 |
| Hong Kong | 9 | 1:815,054 | 3,802 |
| Israel | 9 | 1:950,848 | 57,975 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Japan | 7 | 1:18,263,470 | 47,869 |
| Georgia | 6 | 1:624,258 | 19,750 |
| South Korea | 6 | 1:8,540,043 | 1,433 |
| Ukraine | 6 | 1:7,587,116 | 277,111 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 1:31,871,355 | 17,304 |
| Bermuda | 5 | 1:13,056 | 1,849 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Sudan | 5 | 1:7,502,039 | 8,188 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Malta | 4 | 1:107,568 | 1,849 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 1:44,660,971 | 115,884 |
| Seychelles | 4 | 1:23,098 | 1,012 |
| Suriname | 4 | 1:138,154 | 7,029 |
| Tonga | 4 | 1:26,828 | 461 |
| British Virgin Islands | 3 | 1:10,531 | 816 |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 1:1,593,356 | 8,177 |
| Greece | 3 | 1:3,693,263 | 126,191 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Marshall Islands | 3 | 1:17,274 | 1,698 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1:3,054,091 | 90,853 |
| Vietnam | 3 | 1:30,882,018 | 4,101 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1:3,489,452 | 64,958 |
| Cuba | 2 | 1:5,761,358 | 13,825 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Gambia | 2 | 1:961,726 | 1,013 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Sri Lanka | 2 | 1:10,404,280 | 18,448 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | 1 | 1:5,854 | 177 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 303 | 1:14,620 | 1,876 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 20,749 | 1:1,175 | 131 |
| Scotland | 291 | 1:12,863 | 1,519 |
| Wales | 111 | 1:14,130 | 841 |
| Isle of Man | 33 | 1:1,645 | 214 |
| Guernsey | 10 | 1:3,266 | 579 |
| Jersey | 2 | 1:25,941 | 3,069 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17,245 | 1:2,912 | 328 |
Walton (8,221) may also be a first name.
Walton Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(English) belonging to Walton (common) = 1 the Farmstead or Hamlet enclosed by, or situate near, a Wall [Old English w(e)all, a wall + tún, a farm, etc.] 2 the Farmstead or Hamlet by the Wood [Old English w(e)ald, a wood] 3 the Welshmen’s or Serfs’ Place [Old English w(e)ala, genit. pl. of w(e)alh, Welshman, serf] This place-name occurs in Domesday- Book variously as Waletone (the spelling, e.g., of Walton-on-Thames and Walton- on-the-Hill, L’pool), Waltone, Waletun, Waletune.
Henr’ de Waleton.—Charter-Rolls, A.D. 1226-7.
William de Waleton.—Lanc. Assize-Rolls, A.D. 1285.
Alicia de Walton.—Yorks Poll-Tax, A.D. 1379.
Richard Walton.—Ing. ad q. Damn., A.D. 1413-14.
Walton, Cumb., and West Walton, Norf., owe their name to proximity to a Roman Wall.
(English) One who came from Walton (homestead by a wall, homestead in a wood, or the serf’s homestead), the name of many places in England.
The English Gazetteer mentions more than thirty parishes and places so called; and there are one or two others in Scotland.
Local. The name of several villages in England, from wald, a wood, and ton.
Or De Cramaville, from Cramaville, near Evreux, Normandy. The family held a fief in Essex from the barony of Peverel from the Conquest (Testa, 268). Osbert de C. held lands in Essex 1165 (Lib. Niger); Roger and Henry de C. in the 13th cent. A branch was early seated in Yorkshire, of which Robert de Cramaville gave lands at Walton to Fountains Abbey (Burton, Mon. Ebor. 200). His descendants, who bore the name of ‘De Walton,’ were also benefactors to Fountains and Bridlington. John de Wauton had free warren on his lands in York t. Henry III. In 1316 the heirs of Gilbert de W. were landowners in York, and 1324 Sir Robert de W. was made prisoner at the battle of Boroughbridge (Parliamentary Writs). After this the family lost its consequence, but still continued in the same vicinity, where its descendant, the learned Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester, and author of the ‘Polyglott,’ was born.
A location name in Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk.
Walton. —Usually a north of England name, especially characteristic of Cumberland and Westmoreland, Durham, and Northumberland. It is in most cases derived from the names of places in the county.
Walton, a name now numerous in the Darlington district, has characterised Weardale forages (Denham's "Slogans of the North").
Walton Demographics
Walton Religious Adherence
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Religious Adherence
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Walton Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Walton Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Walton (Arabic: والتون) is more frequently found in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Walton.
How Common Is The Last Name Walton? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,585th most frequently used surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 46,497 people. The surname Walton is primarily found in The Americas, where 64 percent of Walton are found; 63 percent are found in North America and 62 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Walton is also the 69,811th most frequently occurring given name at a global level, held by 8,221 people.
The last name Walton is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 95,379 people, or 1 in 3,800. In The United States it is most common in: Texas, where 9 percent reside, California, where 8 percent reside and Georgia, where 8 percent reside. Not including The United States it is found in 137 countries. It is also common in England, where 23 percent reside and Australia, where 6 percent reside.
Walton Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Walton has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Walton last name rose 553 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 176 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 337 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 713 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it rose 143 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Walton Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is predominantly Catholic (61%) in Ireland.
In The United States Walton are 10.34% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 57.11% registered with the party.
The amount Walton earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 35.65% more than the national average, earning 469,446 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 33.93% more than the national average, earning R 318,276 per year; in Colombia they earn 119.12% more than the national average, earning $49,744,700 COP per year; in United States they earn 4.7% less than the national average, earning $41,122 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.58% more than the national average, earning $52,455 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wealton | 92 | 60 | / |
| Wallton | 92 | 37 | / |
| Whalton | 92 | 26 | / |
| Waldton | 92 | 19 | / |
| Walthon | 92 | 14 | / |
| Waltton | 92 | 6 | / |
| Waltonk | 92 | 3 | / |
| Waslton | 92 | 3 | / |
| Wahlton | 92 | 3 | / |
| Waltone | 92 | 2 | / |
| Waltonh | 92 | 1 | / |
| Waalton | 92 | 0 | / |
| Waulton | 92 | 0 | / |
| Waltoon | 92 | 0 | / |
| Whealton | 86 | 399 | / |
| Waltuone | 86 | 2 | / |
| Waltoing | 86 | 1 | / |
| Walthone | 86 | 1 | / |
| Watelton | 86 | 0 | / |
| Valton | 83 | 1,888 | / |
| Wolton | 83 | 614 | / |
| Balton | 83 | 580 | / |
| Waltan | 83 | 15 | / |
| Waltom | 83 | 15 | / |
| Waltun | 83 | 0 | / |
| Wattleton | 80 | 27 | / |
| Waltonová | 80 | 4 | / |
| Wattelton | 80 | 3 | / |
| Waltosink | 80 | 1 | / |
| Wallthong | 80 | 1 | / |
| Whelton | 77 | 1,589 | / |
| Woolton | 77 | 62 | / |
| Vaulton | 77 | 38 | / |
| Ballton | 77 | 35 | / |
| Wholton | 77 | 31 | / |
| Walthan | 77 | 5 | / |
| Wolthon | 77 | 4 | / |
| Baltoun | 77 | 4 | / |
| Valtone | 77 | 4 | / |
| Baulton | 77 | 3 | / |
| Balthon | 77 | 2 | / |
| Vallton | 77 | 1 | / |
| Baldton | 77 | 1 | / |
| Waltoum | 77 | 1 | / |
| Baltton | 77 | 1 | / |
| Vaalton | 77 | 1 | / |
| Welhton | 77 | 1 | / |
| Waltann | 77 | 1 | / |
| Baltoon | 77 | 0 | / |
| Walttan | 77 | 0 | / |
| Woulton | 77 | 0 | / |
| Bealton | 77 | 0 | / |
| Walthousen | 75 | 10 | / |
| Wheelton | 71 | 312 | / |
| Watletan | 71 | 2 | / |
| Walthann | 71 | 1 | / |
| Wolltton | 71 | 1 | / |
| Baltuonė | 71 | 1 | / |
| Wheltton | 71 | 1 | / |
| Whellton | 71 | 1 | / |
| Wooslton | 71 | 1 | / |
| Woltoone | 71 | 0 | / |
| Valthoen | 71 | 0 | / |
| Bolton | 67 | 84,400 | / |
| Baltan | 67 | 2,946 | / |
| Valtan | 67 | 43 | / |
| Volton | 67 | 41 | / |
| Baltun | 67 | 22 | / |
| Woltan | 67 | 12 | / |
| Waltam | 67 | 11 | / |
| Uolton | 67 | 5 | / |
| Valtonova | 67 | 2 | / |
| Baltán | 67 | 1 | / |
| Valtón | 67 | 1 | / |
| Valtun | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wooltoone | 67 | 0 | / |
| Waltum | 67 | 0 | / |
Walton Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Walton in the Arabic language | ||
| والتون | waltwn | - |
| والتن | waltn | - |
| ولتون | wltwn | - |
| التون | altwn | - |
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