Eaton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Eaton, the name of numerous places in England, either ‘farmstead by a river’ or ‘farmstead on an island’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/iːtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eaton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.1K
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
- 519 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
47,184 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, 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 Eaton, the name of numerous places in England, either ‘farmstead by a river’ or ‘farmstead on an island’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eaton 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 | #636 | 47,184 | 1 in 7K | 47K | Eaton | 519 |
| GB United Kingdom | #452 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 19 | Eaton | 244 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Eaton | 19 |
| CA Canada | #681 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 1 | Eaton | 176 |
| AU Australia | #613 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Eaton | 187 |
| NZ New Zealand | #439 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Eaton | 79 |
| JM Jamaica | #156 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Eaton | 9 |
| IS Iceland | #653 | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 1 | Eaton | 3 |
47,184 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Eaton 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 Eton (Bk) or one of several places called Eaton, from OE ēa-tūn ‘farm on a river’ or ēg tūn ‘farm on an island’; first attested Ulmar de Etone 1066 DB (Herts)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places so called from OE ea river or eg island, low-lying land + tun enclosure, settlement. Var.: Eyton. At least one Eyton family derive their name from an estate in Shrops. which they have held since the 12th cent. Robert de Eyton is recorded in transactions with Shrewsbury Abbey in the reign of Henry II (//54-70).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Pueblo al borde del río
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Irish, An English toponymic in Ireland since late sixteenth century; now fairly numerous in Ulster and Leinster but scattered
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)
- John Eatonb. 1790USAmerican politician and diplomat (1790-1856)
- Cyrus Eatonb. 1883CAAmerican businessman (1883–1979)
- Jay Eatonb. 1899USAmerican actor (1899-1970)
- Shirley Eatonb. 1937GBBritish actress
- George Eatonb. 1945CACanadian race driver
- Mark Eatonb. 1957USAmerican basketball player (1957–2021)
- Meredith Eatonb. 1974USAmerican actress
- Brando Eatonb. 1986USAmerican actor
- Ashton Eatonb. 1988USAmerican decathlete
- Courtney Eatonb. 1996AUAustralian actress and model (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 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 47K | #740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 46K | #676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 45K | #756 |
| 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 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 Eaton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Eaton, the name of numerous places in England, either ‘farmstead by a river’ or ‘farmstead on an island’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Eaton?
- A machine transcription gives /iːtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Eaton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 47 thousand people named Eaton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eaton.
- How common is the name Eaton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 47,184 people named Eaton in 2010, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Eaton compared with other names?
- In the United States, Eaton is the 636th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eatonThe 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, “Eaton” — the 636th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.