Anderton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Anderton, Cheshire or Lancashire; either ‘Eanred’s farmstead’ or ‘Eindrithi’s farmstead’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈændɝtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anderton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 37K
- USUnited States1 in 99K
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
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,362 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
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 Anderton, Cheshire or Lancashire; either ‘Eanred’s farmstead’ or ‘Eindrithi’s farmstead’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anderton 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 | — | 3,362 | 1 in 99K | 3.4K | Anderton | 307 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Anderton | 173 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Anderton | 100 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Anderton | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Anderton | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Anderton | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Anderton | 62 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #126 | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Anderton | 1 |
3,362 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. 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)
Anderton is also recorded in 4 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 Anderton, Cheshire, Lancashire; first attested William de Anderton 1260 AssLa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Patrs. (often suggesting illegitimate origin): It.: D(ell)’Amore. places, in Ches. and Lancs., so called from the OE per¬ sonal name Eanred (composed of the elements ean, of uncertain origin, + red counsel) + tun enclosure, settle¬ ment.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, William de Anderton 1260 AssLa; Robert of Anderton 1401 AssLa; George Anderton 1642 PrD. From Anderton (Ch, La).
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)
- Henry Andertonb. 1630GBBritish painter, 1630-after 1665 (1630–1667)
- Isabella Mary Andertonb. 1858GBBritish writer (1858-1904)
- Joanne Andertonb. 1901AUwriter
- John Andertonb. 1933GBfootballer (born 1933)
- Sylvan Andertonb. 1934GBEnglish footballer (born 1934)
- Jim Andertonb. 1938NZNew Zealand politician (1938–2018)
- Elizabeth Andertonb. 1938GBBritish ballet dancer
- Darren Andertonb. 1972GBEnglish footballer (born 1972)
- Katie Andertonb. 1983GBEnglish footballer
- Nick Andertonb. 1996GBEnglish association football player (born 1996)
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 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,200 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| 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 Anderton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Anderton, Cheshire or Lancashire; either ‘Eanred’s farmstead’ or ‘Eindrithi’s farmstead’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Anderton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈændɝtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Anderton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Anderton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anderton.
- How common is the name Anderton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,362 people named Anderton in 2010, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Anderton compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Anderton is the 126th most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Anderton” — the 126th most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.