Carton

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: cardboard

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kaʁtɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Carton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 8.3K
  • IEIreland≈1 in 16K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,200 people, est.

Sources
247 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Person who transports goods in a cart; grain merchant; or a reduced form of McCartney.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Carton is read(measured from records)

Carton is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French49%

    cardboard

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English38%

    Person who transports goods in a cart; grain merchant; or a reduced form of McCartney.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Carton in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carton 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.

Where Carton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#908≈5,200 est.≈1 in 13K729Carton247
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 41K—Carton3
BE Belgium—1,4141 in 8.3K1.4KCarton48
US United States—1,0051 in 331K1.2KCarton45
ES Spain—8061 in 62K806Carton12
IE Ireland—≈330 est.≈1 in 16K—Carton6

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carton is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Cartón, Carțon

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cartón

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cartón

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Cartón, Carțon

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Cartón

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Carton 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 Romanian, , mos" tinutul Iasi, 1786, cf. subst. ard. < pol. hartots stamba".

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In Irish, An English toponymic mainly found in Ulster. It is occasionally used as a synonym of MacCartan

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

  • In Romanian, CARTÓN2, cartoane, s. n. (Reg.) Pânză tare de cânepă, in, bumbac; creton.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

16001700180019002000Florent Carton Dancourt, b. 1661Richard Claude Critchett, b. 1856Louis Carton, b. 1861Paul Carton, b. 1875Raoul Carton, b. 1879Fernand Carton, b. 1921Kevin Carton, b. 1933Davy Carton, b. 1959Michael Carton, b. 1984Louise Carton, b. 1994

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Carton, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Carton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081.4K#831
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—1.3K#856
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#22,223
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#21,381
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,787
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951889—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961881—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—806#5,361
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—806#5,353
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971778—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941754—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991729—

Reference works 5

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 Carton mean?
In French, cardboard
Where does the name Carton come from?
Person who transports goods in a cart; grain merchant; or a reduced form of McCartney. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Carton?
A machine transcription gives /kaʁtɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Carton have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Carton in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carton.
Where is Carton most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carton is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 8.3 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Carton?
In Belgium, the national register counted 1,414 people named Carton in 2008, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
How common is Carton compared with other names?
In France, Carton is the 908th most common surname of 1,200,812 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, “Carton” — the 908th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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