The surname Turton
A Norse place surname, carried by 1,005 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T635
Origin
Norse origin
Habitational surname from a historical area in Lancashire, from Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Turton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,005 people named Turton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 307,209 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 889.
Who is named Turton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
81% of people named Turton identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 81%
- Black (not Hispanic) 14%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
- Two or more races 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Turton
Turton has the Soundex code T635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T635.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Turton come from?
- Habitational surname from a historical area in Lancashire, from Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Turton?
- 1,005 people in the United States had the surname Turton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 307,209 Americans. It ranked 24,787th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Turton?
- In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Turton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Turton?
- Turton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Turton getting more or less common?
- More common. 889 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,005 in 2010, up 13%.