Hortôn
surname · Latin script
Hortôn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The majority of the English toponyms derive from Old English horh (“mud, slime”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
- USUnited States1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 31K
- FIFinland1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
85,195 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Horton in US United States, NC New Caledonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Englishhorh“mud“mud, slime”(measured from records)
- Old Englishheorot“stag“stag, hart”(measured from records)
The majority of the English toponyms derive from Old English horh (“mud, slime”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). The village in Gloucestershire derives from Old English heorot (“stag, hart”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”)
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hortôn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 85,195 | 1 in 3.9K | 85K | Horton | 108 |
| AR Argentina | — | 188 | 1 in 242K | 188 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 129 | 1 in 388K | 129 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 53 | 1 in 105K | 53 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 36 | 1 in 5.9M | 36 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 30 | 1 in 170K | 30 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 24 | 1 in 31K | 24 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
| NC New Caledonia | #143 | — | — | — | Horton | 5 |
85,195 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hortôn mean, and where does it come from?
- The majority of the English toponyms derive from Old English horh (“mud, slime”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Hortôn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 85 thousand people named Hortôn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horton.
- Where is Hortôn most common?
- Hortôn is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hortôn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 85,195 people named Hortôn in 2010, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Hortôn compared with other names?
- In New Caledonia, Hortôn is the 143rd most common surname of 1,911 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hort%C3%B4nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hortôn” — the 143rd most common surname in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.