The surname Hutton
An English place surname, carried by 18,479 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈhʌtən/ 2 syllables Soundex H350
Origin
English origin
From Old English hōh (“ridge, spur”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Hutton 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 18,479 people named Hutton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 16,708 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,961.
Who is named Hutton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Hutton identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Famous Huttons
16 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Timothy HuttonAmerican actor and director, born 1960
- Betty HuttonAmerican actress (1921–2007)
- Lauren HuttonAmerican model, actress, and entrepreneur, born 1943
- Brian G. HuttonAmerican actor, film director (1935–2014)
- Barbara HuttonAmerican philanthropist and socialite (1912-1979)
- Jim HuttonAmerican actor (1934-1979)
- Robert HuttonAmerican actor (1920-1994)
- Marion HuttonAmerican singer and actress (1919–1987)
- Frederick Wollaston HuttonBritish-born New Zealand scientist (1836–1905)
- Claire HuttonAmerican soccer player, born 2006
- Bobby HuttonAmerican activist and member of the Black Panther Party (1950-1968)
- June HuttonAmerican singer (1919–1973)
Notable Huttons come mostly from the United States (13), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the Kingdom of Great Britain (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Hotten
Hutton has the Soundex code H350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H350.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hutton come from?
- From Old English hōh (“ridge, spur”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Hutton?
- 18,479 people in the United States had the surname Hutton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,708 Americans. It ranked 1,955th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hutton?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Hutton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Hutton?
- Timothy Hutton, American actor and director, followed by Betty Hutton.
- Where is the surname Hutton most common?
- Wikidata records people named Hutton in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain and 1 other country.
- How do you pronounce Hutton?
- Hutton is /ˈhʌtən/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Hutton?
- Hutton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Hutton getting more or less common?
- More common. 17,961 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,479 in 2010, up 2.9%.
- What are other spellings of Hutton?
- Hotten.