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    The surname Deighton

    An English place surname, carried by 335 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D235

    Deighton: #60,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Deighton #60,196, 335 people Deighton: #60,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Deighton #60,196, 335 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deighton is more common than 62.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English dīċ (“ditch, trench, moat”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”); compare the doublet Ditton.

    Deighton 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 335 people named Deighton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 921,628 Americans. That is up 8.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 308.

    #60,196
    rank among US surnames
    335
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.8%
    change since 2000 (was #61,058)

    Who is named Deighton

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

    96% of people named Deighton identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Deighton

    Deighton has the Soundex code D235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D235.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Deighton come from?
    From Old English dīċ (“ditch, trench, moat”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”); compare the doublet Ditton.
    How common is the surname Deighton?
    335 people in the United States had the surname Deighton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 921,628 Americans. It ranked 60,196th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Deighton?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Deighton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Deighton?
    Deighton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Deighton getting more or less common?
    More common. 308 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 335 in 2010, up 8.8%.
    What are other spellings of Deighton?
    Dayton.
    Is Deighton also a first name?
    Yes. Deighton is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.