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    The surname Allerton

    An English place surname, carried by 488 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex A463

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Allerton is more common than 72.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    The name of the English location is possibly from Old English alor (“alder”) + -tun, or possibly it was named for Alfred the Great. It is in the Domesday Book as Alvertune.

    Allerton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 488 people named Allerton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 632,675 Americans. That is down 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 502.

    #44,109
    rank among US surnames
    488
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #40,987)

    Who is named Allerton

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Allerton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Allerton

    Allerton has the Soundex code A463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A463.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Allerton come from?
    The name of the English location is possibly from Old English alor (“alder”) + -tun, or possibly it was named for Alfred the Great. It is in the Domesday Book as Alvertune.
    How common is the surname Allerton?
    488 people in the United States had the surname Allerton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 632,675 Americans. It ranked 44,109th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Allerton?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Allerton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Allerton?
    Allerton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Allerton getting more or less common?
    Less common. 502 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 488 in 2010, down 2.8%.