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    The surname Bilton

    An English place surname, carried by 624 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B435

    Bilton: #35,945 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Bilton #35,945, 624 people Bilton: #35,945 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Bilton #35,945, 624 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bilton is more common than 77.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From an unattested Old English personal name *Billa + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). In the case of the place in Warwickshire, the first element is probably Old English beolone (“henbane”).

    Bilton 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 624 people named Bilton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 494,785 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 643.

    #35,945
    rank among US surnames
    624
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3%
    change since 2000 (was #33,471)

    Who is named Bilton

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

    81% of people named Bilton identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bilton

    Bilton 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 Bilton come from?
    From an unattested Old English personal name *Billa + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). In the case of the place in Warwickshire, the first element is probably Old English beolone (“henbane”).
    How common is the surname Bilton?
    624 people in the United States had the surname Bilton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 494,785 Americans. It ranked 35,945th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bilton?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Bilton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bilton?
    Bilton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bilton getting more or less common?
    Less common. 643 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 624 in 2010, down 3.0%.