How common is the surname Belton?

9,041 people in the United States had the surname Belton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,149 Americans. It ranked 3,939th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Belton getting more or less common?

More common. 8,111 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,041 in 2010, up 12%.

The surname Belton

An English place surname, carried by 9,041 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B435

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Belton is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

English origin

From an unexplained first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Belton 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 9,041 people named Belton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,149 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,111.

#3,939

rank among US surnames

9,041

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+11.5%

change since 2000 (was #4,018)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,933	Packer	9,048	34,123
#3,936	Nunley	9,046	34,131
#3,937	Jonas	9,043	34,142
#3,939	Belton	9,041	34,149

Who is named Belton

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

62% of people named Belton identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Black (not Hispanic) 62%
White (not Hispanic) 30%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Two or more races 3.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Belton

Belton has the Soundex code B435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B435.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Belton come from?: From an unexplained first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Belton?: 9,041 people in the United States had the surname Belton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,149 Americans. It ranked 3,939th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Belton?: In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Belton identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Belton?: Belton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Belton getting more or less common?: More common. 8,111 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,041 in 2010, up 12%.