Ireton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Ireton or Irton’, Derbyshire and Yorkshire respectively, or from Irton, Cumbria (‘settlement by the Irt’)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈaɪɝtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ireton is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Person from Ireton or Irton’, Derbyshire and Yorkshire respectively, or from Irton, Cumbria (‘settlement by the Irt’).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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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)Ireton 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, from Ireton (Derby) or Irton (Cumberland/North Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Richard de Irton 1218 AssL
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
1. habitational name from either of two places in Derbyshire called Ireton, or one in North Yorkshire called Irton. All of these are named from the genitive case of Old Norse tri ‘Irishmen’ (see Ireland) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. 2. habitational name from Irton in Cumbria, named from the old river name Irt, which is of uncertain origin, + Old English tun.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, in Derbys. called Ireton, or one in N Yorks, called Irton, all from the gen. case of OE Iras Irishmen (see Ireland) + OE tun enclosure, settlement. 2. habitation name from Irton in Cumb., so called from the old river name Irt, of uncertain origin + OE tun enclosure, settlement. Var.: Irton. Iriarte see Uriarte
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)- Henry Iretonb. 1611GBEnglish politician (1611-1651)
- John Iretonb. 1615Lord Mayor of London; (1615-1689)
- Elizabeth Sleighb. 1615not in their usual name1615 - 1657
- Henry Iretonb. 1652English Member of Parliament (c1652-1711)
- Albert Iretonb. 1879GBBritish boxer (1879-1947)
- Peter Leo Iretonb. 1882USCatholic bishop (1882–1958)
- William Iretonb. 1955JPJapanese businessman, movie producer
- Will Iretonb. 1998USAmerican baseball trainer for performance operations, English interpreter
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 865 | #29,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 734 | #31,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 714 | #30,791 |
| 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 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #340,872 |
| 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 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
- 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 Ireton mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Ireton or Irton’, Derbyshire and Yorkshire respectively, or from Irton, Cumbria (‘settlement by the Irt’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Ireton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaɪɝtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ireton have the most bearers?
- Ireton is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iretonThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ireton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.