# Parton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/parton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,039 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,739 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 51,125 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.6% (5,829 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English pere (“pear”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to pear + -ton.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Parton in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Parton in the United States.

## People named Parton

- Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter (1946–2026)
- Stella Parton, American country singer

## Similar surnames

Partin, Partain, Parten, Pardon, Partington, Perdomo, Prudhomme, Pridemore, Pruden, Pradhan, Prettyman, Prudencio.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.