Railton
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Railton is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A surname from Old English.
- BRBrazil1 in 32K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.8M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
6,590 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Old English.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Railton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 6,590 | 1 in 32K | 6.8K | Railton | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 1.4K | Railton | 137 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Railton | 12 |
| US United States | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 21M | 244 | Railton | 141 |
| ES Spain | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 8.7M | — | Railton | 10 |
| BE Belgium | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Railton | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
6,590 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Railtonb. 1522English politician
- William Railtonb. 1801GBEnglish architect (1801–1877)
- Herbert Railtonb. 1857GBBritish artist and book illustrator (1857–1910)
- Reid Railtonb. 1895USBritish car designer
- Victor Railtonb. 1906CACanadian politician (1906–1996)
- Dennis Railtonb. 1940Australian rules footballer
- Peter Railtonb. 1950BOAmerican philosopher
- Nigel Railtonb. 1967British business executive (born 1967)
- Lucy RailtonGBBritish cellist, composer and event producer
- Jonathan RailtonGBBritish motorcycle rider
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.4K | #5,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 244 | #83,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 238 | #75,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 236 | #80,419 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 117 | #56,228 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Railton mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Old English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Railton a male or female name?
- Railton is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Railton have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Railton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled railton.
- Where is Railton most common?
- Railton is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Railton?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,590 people named Railton in 2022, about 1 in 32 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/railtonThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Railton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.