Nórton
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nórton is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The parish in New Brunswick is named after Norton, Massachusetts.
- GYGuyana1 in 2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 5.2K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
63,722 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Norton in US United States, ES Spain, HN Honduras.
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)From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The parish in New Brunswick is named after Norton, Massachusetts.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- 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
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Nórton is found
(measured from records)Nórton 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 | — | 63,722 | 1 in 5.2K | 64K | Norton | 161 |
| GY Guyana | — | 379 | 1 in 2K | 379 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 138 | 1 in 362K | 138 | Norton | 22 |
| PL Poland | — | 60 | 1 in 638K | 35 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 56 | 1 in 150K | 56 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 52 | 1 in 105K | 52 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 34 | 1 in 150K | 34 | — | 18 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 14 | 1 in 7.2K | 14 | — | — |
| HN Honduras | #675 | — | — | — | Norton | 4 |
63,722 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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 Nórton mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The parish in New Brunswick is named after Norton, Massachusetts. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
- Is Nórton a male or female name?
- Nórton is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nórton?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Nórton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norton. After it come Guyana, Spain, Poland and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nórton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nórton is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nórton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 63,722 people named Nórton in 2010, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Nórton compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Nórton is the 675th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%B3rtonThe 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, “Nórton” — the 675th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.