# Gatton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gatton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,871 |
| US rank (2010) | 15,615 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 165,016 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.0% (1,799 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Gatten |

## Etymology

Habitational surname for someone from Gatton, Surrey, from Old English gāt (“goat”) + tūn (“settlement”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gatton in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gatton in the United States.

## People named Gatton

- Danny Gatton, American guitarist (1945–1994)

## Similar surnames

Gaytan, Gaitan, Gayton, Gaetano, Goodwin, Godwin, Gooden, Guyton, Goodin, Gudino, Gideon, Godin.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.