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    The surname Murton

    An English place surname, carried by 362 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M635

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Murton is more common than 65.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh, fen”) + tūn (“enclosure; town, settlement”).

    Murton 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 362 people named Murton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 852,888 Americans. That is down 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 457.

    #56,444
    rank among US surnames
    362
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -20.8%
    change since 2000 (was #44,350)

    Who is named Murton

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

    92% of people named Murton identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as two or more races and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Murton

    Murton has the Soundex code M635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M635.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Murton come from?
    From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh, fen”) + tūn (“enclosure; town, settlement”).
    How common is the surname Murton?
    362 people in the United States had the surname Murton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 852,888 Americans. It ranked 56,444th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Murton?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Murton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Murton?
    Murton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Murton getting more or less common?
    Less common. 457 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 362 in 2010, down 21%.