Renton
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Renton’, Borders, meaning ‘Regna’s settlement’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Renton is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CNChina
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Renton’, Borders, meaning ‘Regna’s settlement’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Renton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 909 | Renton | 233 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2K | Renton | 163 |
| CN China | — | — | Renton | 5 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Renton | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Renton | 101 |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | — | 6 |
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 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Renton is also recorded in 3 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 Renton in Coldingham (Berwick), or Rainton (Durham, NRY); first attested Robert de Rentun c1225
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, English surname/place name used as given name
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Esperanto, accusative singular of rento
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)
- Alexander Wood Rentonb. 1861GBBritish lawyer and Ceylon's Chief Justice
- Leslie Rentonb. 1868GBBritish politician (1868-1947)
- David Renton, Baron Rentonb. 1908GBBritish politician (1908-2007)
- Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harryb. 1932GBBritish politician (born 1932)
- Nicholas Rentonb. 1946ATfilm director
- Alex Rentonb. 1961CABritish-Canadian journalist
- Polly Rentonb. 1970GB(1970-2010)
- Dave Rentonb. 1972GBBritish lawyer and academic
- Daniel Renton Skinnerb. 1973GBBritish actor
- Kristen Rentonb. 1982USAmerican 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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2K | #3,741 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 909 | #27,975 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 745 | #29,784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 740 | #31,329 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,500 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Renton mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Renton’, Borders, meaning ‘Regna’s settlement’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Renton have the most bearers?
- Renton is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled renton.
What do you want to know about Renton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rentonThe 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, “Renton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.