Gorton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Gorton, Lancashire, a place-name meaning 'dirty farmstead'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɔɹtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gorton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 81K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gorton itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
4,110 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гортон in RU Russia.
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)
From Gorton, Lancashire, a place-name meaning 'dirty farmstead'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gorton 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 | 4,110 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Gorton | 8 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 88M | — | Гортон | 17 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
4,110 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Gorton 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 Gorton (Lancashire), or Gortonhill in Bishop's Nympton (Devon), Gorton 1524; first attested Thomas de Gorton 1332 SRLa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, pers. name (G. Carruth)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, so called from OE gor dirt + tun enclosure, settlement. Gorwitz see Horowitz Gorzkiewicz see Horky Gosalvez see Gonzalo 256 Gosch Gosch see Gottschalk Gdsgen see Goose
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, so called from OE gor dirt + tun enclosure, settlement.
as a nameA dictionary of 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)
- Samuel Gortonb. 1593USRhode Island colonial president
- John Gortonb. 1911AUAustralian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1911–2002)
- Bettina Gortonb. 1915USWife of Australian Prime Minister
- Wilhelm Gortonb. 1922ATAustrian politician (1922-2016)
- Assheton Gortonb. 1930GBproduction designer (1930-2014)
- Nathaniel M. Gortonb. 1938USUnited States federal judge
- Linda Gortonb. 1948USAmerican politician
- Gary Gortonb. 1951USAmerican economist
- Ian Gortonb. 1962GBDr. Ian Gorton; Associate Division Director in the Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL
- Andy Gortonb. 1966GBEnglish footballer (born 1966)
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,592 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,239 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #260,318 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #163,646 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #24,942 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gorton mean, and where does it come from?
- From Gorton, Lancashire, a place-name meaning 'dirty farmstead'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gorton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɔɹtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gorton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Gorton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gorton.
- Where is Gorton most common?
- Gorton is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 81 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gorton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,110 people named Gorton in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gortonThe 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, “Gorton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.