How common is the surname Litton?

4,564 people in the United States had the surname Litton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,648 Americans. It ranked 7,308th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Litton?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Litton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Litton getting more or less common?

More common. 4,420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,564 in 2010, up 3.3%.

The surname Litton

A surname, carried by 4,564 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Litton is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,564 people named Litton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,648 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,420.

#7,308

rank among US surnames

4,564

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #6,992)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,301	Grass	4,567	67,604
#7,303	Bobadilla	4,566	67,618
#7,305	Hardeman	4,565	67,633
#7,308	Levan	4,564	67,648
#7,311	Casale	4,563	67,663
#7,314	Struble	4,562	67,678
#7,315	Cofer	4,561	67,693

Who is named Litton

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

94% of people named Litton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Litton

Litton has the Soundex code L350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L350.

Questions

How common is the surname Litton?: 4,564 people in the United States had the surname Litton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,648 Americans. It ranked 7,308th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Litton?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Litton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Litton getting more or less common?: More common. 4,420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,564 in 2010, up 3.3%.