Langton
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Langton is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: person from Langton, various English places, mainly ‘long farmstead’.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
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 Langton, various English places, mainly ‘long farmstead’.
Sources 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)
Langton is also recorded in 4 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 Longton (Lancashire, Staffordshire) or one of the Langtons; first attested Osbert de Langeton’ 1191 P (L)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from any of numerous places so called from Old English lang ‘long’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. (Langton in County Durham, however, has the same etymology as Langdon).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, One of the 'Tribes of Kilkenny'. Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Stephen Langtonb. 1150GBEnglish cleric; Archbishop of Canterbury
- David Langtonb. 1912GBBritish actor (1912-1994)
- Arthur Langtonb. 1912ZASouth African cricketer (1912-1942)
- Paul Langtonb. 1913USAmerican actor (1913-1980)
- Jane Langtonb. 1922USNovelist, children's writer (1922-2018)
- Simon Langtonb. 1941GBEnglish television director and producer
- Diane Langtonb. 1944GBEnglish actress (1944-2025)
- Marcia Langtonb. 1951AUAustralian Aboriginal scholar and activist
- Brooke Langtonb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Steve Langtonb. 1983USAmerican bobsledder
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,817 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,566 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,221 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 47 | #13,205 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 39 | #53,474 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 39 | #52,638 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #34,062 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #200,382 |
| 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 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 Langton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Langton, various English places, mainly ‘long farmstead’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Langton have the most bearers?
- Langton is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Langton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.