Kirton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Kirton, various northern English places; 'village with a church'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɝtn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kirton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GDGrenada1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 5.2K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 20K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,791 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Grenada
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 Kirton, various northern English places; 'village with a church'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kirton 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 | 1,791 | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | Kirton | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 145 | 1 in 5.2K | 145 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 47 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 34 | 1 in 3.3K | 34 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 11 | 1 in 463K | 11 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 5 | 1 in 20K | 5 | — | — |
1,791 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Kirton 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, from Kirton (Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk); first attested Lambert de Kirketon 1219 AssL
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from any of various places, for example in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire, named with Old English cirice or Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English fSn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- John William Kirtonb. 1831born 1831; died 1892
- Harold Kirtonb. 1894GBEnglish cricketer (1894-1974)
- Jock Kirtonb. 1916GBScottish association footballer (1916-1996)
- Alan Kirtonb. 1933NZNew Zealand agricultural scientist (1933–2001)
- Patrick Kirtonb. 1936GBEnglish squash player
- John Kirtonb. 1948CACanadian political scientist
- Mark Kirtonb. 1958CACanadian ice hockey player
- Doug Kirtonb. 1966CACanadian ice hockey player
- Judith Kirton-Darlingb. 1977GBBritish politician and trade unionist (born 1977)
- James Kirtonb. 1985GBBritish swimmer
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,755 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 145 | #480 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47 | #109,451 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 34 | #189 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 11 | #5,033 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 5 | #257 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kirton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Kirton, various northern English places; 'village with a church' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Kirton?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝtn̩/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kirton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Kirton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kirton.
- Where is Kirton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kirton is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kirton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,791 people named Kirton in 2010, about 1 in 186 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/kirtonThe 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, “Kirton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.