Kelton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from the village of Kelton in the parish of the same name in Kirkcudbrightshire
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɛɫtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kelton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 122K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 97K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from the village of Kelton in the parish of the same name in Kirkcudbrightshire.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kelton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Kelton | 3 |
| US United States | 2,717 | 1 in 122K | 5.3K | Kelton | 288 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 197K | listed | Kelton | 69 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 1 | Kelton | 46 |
| AU Australia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 1 | Kelton | 60 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Kelton | 15 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John C. Keltonb. 1828USAdjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1889 to 1892
- Allan C. Keltonb. 1846USMarine Corps Brevet Medal recipient
- Paige Keltonb. 1901USAmerican journalist
- Elmer Keltonb. 1926USJournalist, novelist (1926–2009)
- Richard Keltonb. 1943USAmerican actor (1943-1978)
- Kevin Keltonb. 1956USTelevision writer
- Stephanie Keltonb. 1969USAmerican economist & academic
- Aaron Keltonb. 1974USAmerican football player and coach
- Kate Keltonb. 1978CACanadian actor and model
- Terissa Keltonb. 1988USAmerican actress
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 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,399 |
| 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 Kelton mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from the village of Kelton in the parish of the same name in Kirkcudbrightshire. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kelton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Kelton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kelton.
- How do you pronounce Kelton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛɫtən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Kelton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,717 people named Kelton in 2010, about 1 in 122 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keltonThe 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, “Kelton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.