Felton
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Felton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: person from Felton, a place-name meaning ‘farmstead in open land’.
- USUnited States1 in 21K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 378K
- NONorway1 in 456K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
16,044 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Felton, a place-name meaning ‘farmstead in open land’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Felton 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.
16,044 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Felton is also recorded in 5 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 Felton in Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, or Somerset; first attested Adam de Felton 1208–9 Pl (Nf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A common placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Pueblo en mitad de un prado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Esperanto, accusative singular of felto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, američka političarka i književnica, prva žena u američkom Senatu
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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 Feltonb. 1595GBEnglish assassin
- Charles N. Feltonb. 1832USAmerican politician (1832–1914)
- Rebecca Latimer Feltonb. 1835USAmerican politician (1835-1930)
- Verna Feltonb. 1890USAmerican actress (1890–1966)
- Frank Fentonb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1906–1957)
- Earl Feltonb. 1910USAmerican screenwriter (1909-1972)
- Norman Feltonb. 1913GBAmerican television producer (1913–2012)
- Mark Feltonb. 1974GBBritish author, historian, and YouTuber
- Raymond Feltonb. 1984USAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
- Tom Feltonb. 1987GBBritish actor, singer and musician
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,266 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,342 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #145,687 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,890 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #70,966 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,489 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 20 | #89,224 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #51,794 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Felton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Felton, a place-name meaning ‘farmstead in open land’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Felton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Felton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felton.
- Where is Felton most common?
- Felton is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Felton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,044 people named Felton in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Felton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feltonThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Felton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.