Drayton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Drayton, from a place-name meaning ‘estate where drays are used’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɹejtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Drayton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Grenada it is the 4th most common surname.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 40K
- USUnited States1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
7,648 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Person from Drayton, from a place-name meaning ‘estate where drays are used’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Drayton 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 | — | 7,648 | 1 in 43K | 7.6K | Drayton | 347 |
| GH Ghana | #387 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Drayton | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Drayton | 144 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Drayton | 119 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 1 | Drayton | 70 |
| JM Jamaica | #593 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Drayton | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 53 | 1 in 14K | 53 | — | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 35 | 1 in 2.9K | 35 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | #4 | 6 | 1 in 19K | 6 | Drayton | 1 |
7,648 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Drayton is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from one of several places called Drayton, or Dreyton; first attested Ledmar de Draiton 1086 InqEl
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, numerous places in England so called from OE drceg (see Draycott) + tun enclosure, settlement. Dreassi see Andrew
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Michael Draytonb. 1563GBEnglish poet
- John Draytonb. 1766USUnited States federal judge and amateur botanist (1766-1822)
- William Draytonb. 1776USAmerican politician
- Grace Draytonb. 1877UScomics artist and illustrator
- Noel Draytonb. 1913USactor (1913-1981)
- Paul Draytonb. 1939USAmerican sprinter
- Bill Draytonb. 1943USAmerican social entrepreneur
- Buster Draytonb. 1954USAmerican boxer
- William Draytonb. 1959USAmerican rapper and television personality (born 1959)
- Charley Draytonb. 1965USAmerican musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.6K | #4,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.4K | #4,680 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.9K | #4,669 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 53 | #572 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 35 | #227 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #217 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Drayton mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Drayton, from a place-name meaning ‘estate where drays are used’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Drayton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Drayton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled drayton.
- Where is Drayton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Drayton is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Drayton?
- A machine transcription gives /dɹejtən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Drayton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,648 people named Drayton in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Drayton compared with other names?
- In Grenada, Drayton is the 4th most common surname of 3,427 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/draytonThe 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, “Drayton” — the 4th most common surname in Grenada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.