Alderton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Alderton, name of several English places; variously 'estate associated with Ealdhere' or 'farmstead where alders grow'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Alderton is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 Alderton, name of several English places; variously 'estate associated with Ealdhere' or 'farmstead where alders grow'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alderton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 766 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — |
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 2000; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Alderton 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 Alderton/Allerton/Ollerton place-names; first attested Alexander de Alreton' 1191 P (Y)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A number of places in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alexander de Alreton’ 1191 P (Y); John de Aldrinton’ 1221 AssWo; Richard Alderton 1525 SRSx. From Alderton (Ess, Gl, Nth, Sf, W), Allerton (La, WRY), or Ollerton (Ch, Nt). v. also ALLERTON, OLLERTON. Aldhous(e) 33 Aldin(s)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)- George Aldertonb. 1854NZNew Zealand newspaper proprietor and editor, orchardist, land agent (1854–1942)
- Charles Courtice Aldertonb. 1857USAmerican pharmacist; inventor of Dr Pepper
- Catherine Aldertonb. 1869British politician
- Jimmy Aldertonb. 1924GBBritish footballer (1924-1998)
- John Aldertonb. 1931USAmerican football player (1931–2013)
- David Aldertonb. 1935GBBritish archaeologist (1935-)
- John Aldertonb. 1940GBEnglish actor (born 1940)
- David Aldertonb. 1956GBBritish essayist (1956-)
- Clive Aldertonb. 1967GBBritish diplomat
- Rio Aldertonb. 1982GBFootballer (born 1982)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 766 | #29,142 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 757 | #32,541 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 613 | #36,477 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #85,612 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #215,045 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #199,863 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Alderton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Alderton, name of several English places; variously 'estate associated with Ealdhere' or 'farmstead where alders grow'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Alderton have the most bearers?
- Alderton is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Alderton?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aldertonThe 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, “Alderton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.