Gurton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Girton, Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire, from ‘farmstead on gravelly ground’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Gurton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 600Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 630Kfew records
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.5Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 598K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 Girton, Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire, from ‘farmstead on gravelly ground’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gurton 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 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Gurton | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 635K | listed | Gurton | 68 |
| AU Australia | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 598K | — | Gurton | 46 |
| CA Canada | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Gurton | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Gurton | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | Gurton | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; 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)Gurton is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, and Notts., which get their names from OE great grit, gravel (or the derived adjective greoten) + tiin enclosure, settlement. Vars.: Girton, Girtin. Dunn i. Var. (of i): Gun. Dims, (of i): Gunnet(t). Pairs, (from i): Gunns, Gunson.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, and Notts., which get their names from OEgreot grit, gra¬ vel (or the derived adjective greoten) + tun enclosure, settlement. Vars.: Girton, Girtin.
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #170,856 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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 Gurton mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Girton, Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire, from ‘farmstead on gravelly ground’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Gurton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 people named Gurton in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurton.
- How common is the name Gurton?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Gurton in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gurton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurtonThe 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, “Gurton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.