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    The surname Moulton

    An English place surname, carried by 12,104 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M435

    Moulton: #2,963 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Moulton #2,963, 12,104 people Moulton: #2,963 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Moulton #2,963, 12,104 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moulton is more common than 98.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name *Mūla + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Moulton 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 12,104 people named Moulton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 25,508 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,580.

    #2,963
    rank among US surnames
    12,104
    people in 2010
    4.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #2,840)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,954Birch12,16125,388
    #2,955Milner12,15325,405
    #2,956Slone12,14225,428
    #2,957Spurlock12,14125,430
    #2,958Tolliver12,12825,457
    #2,960Razo12,12525,464
    #2,961Masterson12,11725,480

    Who is named Moulton

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

    89% of people named Moulton identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Muleton
    • Multon

    Surnames that sound like Moulton

    Moulton has the Soundex code M435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M435.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Moulton come from?
    From the Old English personal name *Mūla + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Moulton?
    12,104 people in the United States had the surname Moulton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,508 Americans. It ranked 2,963rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moulton?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Moulton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Moulton?
    Moulton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Moulton getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,580 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,104 in 2010, up 4.5%.
    What are other spellings of Moulton?
    Muleton and Multon.