How common is the surname Anderton?

3,362 people in the United States had the surname Anderton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,834 Americans. It ranked 9,652nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Anderton getting more or less common?

More common. 2,901 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,362 in 2010, up 16%.

The surname Anderton

An English place surname, carried by 3,362 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Anderton is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English Eanred + tun, meaning "Eanred's town".

Anderton 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 3,362 people named Anderton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 91,834 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,901.

#9,652

rank among US surnames

3,362

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+15.9%

change since 2000 (was #10,200)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,643	Azar	3,365	91,752
#9,646	Bash	3,364	91,779
#9,648	Rode	3,363	91,807
#9,652	Pecoraro	3,362	91,834
#9,658	Durrett	3,361	91,861
#9,661	Hellman	3,360	91,889

Who is named Anderton

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

92% of people named Anderton identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Anderton

Anderton has the Soundex code A536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A536.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Anderton come from?: From Old English Eanred + tun, meaning "Eanred's town".
How common is the surname Anderton?: 3,362 people in the United States had the surname Anderton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,834 Americans. It ranked 9,652nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Anderton?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Anderton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Anderton?: Anderton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Anderton getting more or less common?: More common. 2,901 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,362 in 2010, up 16%.