Harton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Harton (Durham, Herefordshire, North Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Roger de Hartone 1279 RH (Cumberland)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈhɑɹtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Harton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 180K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 293K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 728K
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)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 180K (inferred from the name graph)
1,843 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Harton (Durham, Herefordshire, North Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Roger de Hartone 1279 RH (Cumberland)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Harton 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 | 1,843 | 1 in 180K | 1.8K | Harton | 29 |
| DK Denmark | 20 | 1 in 293K | 20 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | Harton | 2 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 3 | — | — |
1,843 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Harton 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 English, habitational name from places so called in County Durham and North Yorkshire, and possibly also from the one in Shropshire. The first was named in Old Enghsh with heorot ‘stag’, ‘hart’ + dun ‘hill’; the second with hcer ‘rock’ -I- tun ‘enclosure’, ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Altération du nom allemand Hartung, dérivé du germanique hard « dur, fort ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)- Frederic Hartonb. 1889GBEnglish Anglican priest
- Peter Hartonb. 1974screenwriter
- Catherine Hartonb. 1983CACanadian poet
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,485 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,366 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7 | #6,508 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #263,821 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #261,814 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Harton mean, and where does it come from?
- from Harton (Durham, Herefordshire, North Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Roger de Hartone 1279 RH (Cumberland) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Harton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑɹtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Harton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Harton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harton.
- Where is Harton most common?
- Harton is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 180 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Harton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,843 people named Harton in 2010, about 1 in 180 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/hartonThe 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, “Harton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.