Pelton
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pelton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Old English personal name Peola + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- USUnited States1 in 58K(measured from records)
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
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
5,753 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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 the Old English personal name Peola + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pelton 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 | 5,753 | 1 in 58K | 5.8K | Pelton | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 147 | Pelton | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Pelton | 2 |
5,753 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). 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)
Pelton 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 Esperanto, accusative singular of pelto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chn, crazy, foolish
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)
- Oliver Peltonb. 1798USAmerican engraver (1798-1882)
- Guy R. Peltonb. 1824USAmerican politician (1824-1890)
- Lester Allan Peltonb. 1829USAmerican mechanical engineer (1829–1908)
- Agnes Lawrence Peltonb. 1881USAmerican artist (1881-1961)
- Austin Peltonb. 1920CACanadian politician
- Charles Peltonb. 1940USAmerican lawyer
- Ronald Peltonb. 1941USformer NSA analyst
- Robert Young Peltonb. 1955CAAmerican journalist
- Elizabeth Peltonb. 1993USAmerican swimmer
- Rod PeltonUSAmerican politician
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.8K | #5,980 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,108 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 147 | #25,970 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Pelton mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Old English personal name Peola + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Pelton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Pelton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelton.
- Where is Pelton most common?
- Pelton is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pelton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,753 people named Pelton in 2010, about 1 in 58 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/peltonThe 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, “Pelton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.