The surname Dunton
An English place surname, carried by 3,155 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D535
Origin
English origin
From Old English dūn (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Dunton 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 3,155 people named Dunton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,859 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,097.
Who is named Dunton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Dunton identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Dunton has the Soundex code D535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D535.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Dunton come from?
- From Old English dūn (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Dunton?
- 3,155 people in the United States had the surname Dunton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,859 Americans. It ranked 10,215th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dunton?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Dunton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Dunton?
- Dunton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Dunton getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,097 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,155 in 2010, up 1.9%.