The surname Girton
An English place surname, carried by 1,681 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex G635
Origin
English origin
From Old English grēot (“gravel”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Girton 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 1,681 people named Girton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,668 Americans. That is down 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,815.
Who is named Girton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Girton identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Girten
Surnames that sound like Girton
Girton has the Soundex code G635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G635.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Girton come from?
- From Old English grēot (“gravel”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Girton?
- 1,681 people in the United States had the surname Girton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,668 Americans. It ranked 16,926th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Girton?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Girton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Girton?
- Girton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Girton getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,815 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,681 in 2010, down 7.4%.
- What are other spellings of Girton?
- Girten.