Belton
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Belton’, a name of several English places
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Belton is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- MOMacao
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 372 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Belton’, a name of several English places
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Belton 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 | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9K | Belton | 372 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Belton | 168 |
| MO Macao | — | — | Belton | 1 |
| CN China | — | — | Belton | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Belton | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 81 | — | 25 |
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 reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Belton 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 Belton (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Staffordshire) or Bilton (Wales); first attested Turgis de Beltona 1179 P (L)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Turgis de Beltona 1179 P (L); Thomas de Belton’ 1298 AssL; John Belton 1398–9 FFWa. From Belton (L, Lei, R, Sf), or Bilton (Wa), Beltone c1155.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Irish, This is a modern form of the Anglo-Norman de Weldon. More often, however, particularly in the case of immigrants of the seventeenth century and later. Belton is a simple English toponymic derived from one of several places so called. See Weldon
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Frank Brachtb. 1910USnot in their usual nameAmerican film editor (1910-1985)
- Dan Sturkieb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1924-1992)
- Erik Bruhnb. 1928DKnot in their usual nameDanish ballet dancer (1928-1986)
- Michael J.S. Beltonb. 1934USAmerican astronomer (1934-2018)
- Donald B. Ayerb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican university teacher and lawyer
- O'Neal Comptonb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1951-2019)
- Sharon Sayles Beltonb. 1951USAmerican community leader, politician and activist
- Catherine Beltonb. 1973GBjournalist and writer
- Janine Beltonb. 1979GBBritish swimmer
- Cathy BeltonIEIrish actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9K | #3,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,180 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.1K | #4,018 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62 | #90,038 |
| 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 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Belton mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Belton’, a name of several English places Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Belton have the most bearers?
- Belton is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled belton.
What do you want to know about Belton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beltonThe 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, “Belton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.