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    The surname Harton

    An English place surname, carried by 1,843 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H635

    Harton: #15,800 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Harton #15,800, 1,843 people Harton: #15,800 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Harton #15,800, 1,843 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Harton is more common than 90.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either Old English heorot (“hart, stag”) or hær (“rock”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

    Harton 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 1,843 people named Harton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,523 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,766.

    #15,800
    rank among US surnames
    1,843
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #15,280)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,792Waddy1,844167,433
    #15,800Harton1,843167,523
    #15,806Dufault1,842167,614

    Who is named Harton

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

    68% of people named Harton identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 68%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Harton

    Harton has the Soundex code H635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H635.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Harton come from?
    From either Old English heorot (“hart, stag”) or hær (“rock”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
    How common is the surname Harton?
    1,843 people in the United States had the surname Harton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,523 Americans. It ranked 15,800th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Harton?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Harton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Harton?
    Harton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Harton getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,766 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,843 in 2010, up 4.4%.