Newton
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Newton, a place name meaning ‘new farmstead’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Newton is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 4.5K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 737
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
- 523 (measured from records)
- 1 in 737 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Newton, a place name meaning ‘new farmstead’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Newton 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 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Newton | 22 |
| US United States | 74,092 | 1 in 4.5K | 74K | Newton | 523 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Newton | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Newton | 283 |
| AU Australia | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 3 | Newton | 214 |
| DM Dominica | 82 | 1 in 905 | 82 | — | 2 |
| GD Grenada | 80 | 1 in 1.4K | 80 | — | 7 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 73 | 1 in 737 | 73 | Newton | 11 |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Newton is also recorded in 5 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 one or other of the many places of this name; first attested Alward de Niwetuna 1066 DB (Nf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of the very numerous places so called from Old English néowe ‘new’ + tin ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. This is said to be the commonest of all English place names. The most famous bearer of the surname is probably Sir Isaac Newton (1642- 1727), the English scientist. Short form: Newt.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, habitational name from any of the many places so named, from Old English neowe ‘new’ -t- tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English place name. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, places so called, from OE neowe New + tun enclosure, settlement. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest Eng. placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second. Symbol: N.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Isaac Newtonb. 1642GBEnglish mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
- John Newtonb. 1725GBAnglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)
- Gilbert Newton Lewisb. 1875USAmerican physical chemist
- Murray Rothbardb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican economist (1926–1995)
- Wayne Newtonb. 1942USAmerican singer and entertainer
- Huey Newtonb. 1942USCo-founder of the Black Panther Party (1942-1989)
- James Newton Howardb. 1951USAmerican composer and music producer (born 1951)
- Newton Thomas Sigelb. 1955USAmerican cinematographer
- Thandie Newtonb. 1972GBEnglish actress (born 1972)
- Kathryn Newtonb. 1997USAmerican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 74K | #443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 72K | #400 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 71K | #452 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 82 | #146 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 80 | #146 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 73 | #110 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Newton mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Newton, a place name meaning ‘new farmstead’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Newton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 194 thousand people named Newton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled newton.
- Where is Newton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Newton is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 737 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Newton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 74,092 people named Newton in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/newtonThe 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, “Newton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.