Naughton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Naughton, Suffolk, or a reduced form of McNaughton
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Naughton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 21K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
5,264 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)from Naughton, Suffolk, or a reduced form of McNaughton.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Naughton is found
(measured from records)Naughton 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 | — | 5,264 | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Naughton | 357 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 2.8K | Naughton | 167 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Naughton | 148 |
| IE Ireland | #361 | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Naughton | 115 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Naughton | 61 |
| GY Guyana | #483 | 160 | 1 in 4.7K | 160 | Naughton | 3 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #763 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Naughton | 1 |
5,264 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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)Naughton 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 Naughton, Suffolk; first attested Hugh de Nawelton, de Nawenton 1327 SRSf
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from a place in Suffolk, named in Old English with nafola ‘navel’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, i.e. ‘settlement in the navel or depression’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced form of McNaughton.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Scottish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Neachdann , a derivative of necht pure. From this personal name comes the surname Mac Neachdainn , Anglicized as MacNaughton .
as a word
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)- James Naughtonb. 1945USAmerican actor and director
- David Naughtonb. 1951USactor
- Naturi Naughtonb. 1984USAmerican singer, songwriter, and 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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Naughton mean, and where does it come from?
- from Naughton, Suffolk, or a reduced form of McNaughton. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Naughton?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Naughton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naughton. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Naughton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Naughton is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Naughton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,264 people named Naughton in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Naughton compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Naughton is the 361st most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naughtonThe 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, “Naughton” — the 361st most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.