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    The surname Kirton

    An English place surname, carried by 1,791 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈkɝtn̩/ 2 syllables Soundex K635

    Kirton: #16,150 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kirton #16,150, 1,791 people Kirton: #16,150 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kirton #16,150, 1,791 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kirton is more common than 90% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English ċiriċe (“church”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Cheriton. The alteration of /tʃ/ to /k/ is down to Old Norse influence.

    Kirton 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 1,791 people named Kirton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,387 Americans. That is up 33% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,352.

    #16,150
    rank among US surnames
    1,791
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +32.5%
    change since 2000 (was #18,755)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,147Zertuche1,792172,291
    #16,150Zeitler1,791172,387
    #16,157Besser1,790172,484

    Who is named Kirton

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

    49% of people named Kirton identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 49%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.7%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Kerton

    Kirton has the Soundex code K635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K635.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kirton come from?
    From Old English ċiriċe (“church”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Cheriton. The alteration of /tʃ/ to /k/ is down to Old Norse influence.
    How common is the surname Kirton?
    1,791 people in the United States had the surname Kirton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,387 Americans. It ranked 16,150th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kirton?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Kirton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
    How do you pronounce Kirton?
    Kirton is /ˈkɝtn̩/, 2 syllables.
    What type of surname is Kirton?
    Kirton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Kirton getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,352 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,791 in 2010, up 33%.
    What are other spellings of Kirton?
    Kerton.