The surname Welton
An English place surname, carried by 4,761 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W435
Origin
English origin
From Old English wella (“well, spring, stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Welton 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 4,761 people named Welton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,849 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,638.
Who is named Welton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Welton identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Welton has the Soundex code W435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W435.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Welton come from?
- From Old English wella (“well, spring, stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Welton?
- 4,761 people in the United States had the surname Welton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,849 Americans. It ranked 7,028th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Welton?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Welton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Welton?
- Welton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Welton getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,638 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,761 in 2010, up 2.7%.