Upton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Lepton; name of numerous places in England, mostly 'higher farmstead'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Upton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K
- CACanada≈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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 409 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
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)
person from Lepton; name of numerous places in England, mostly 'higher farmstead'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Upton 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 | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Upton | 10 |
| US United States | — | 13,769 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Upton | 409 |
| GB United Kingdom | #984 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 9.7K | Upton | 220 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Upton | 150 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Upton | 116 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Upton | 50 |
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)
Upton 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 one of the numerous Uptons; first attested Ethestan on Optune 972 OEByn (Nth)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, ous places so called. The majority of them get the name from OE up- upper + tiin enclosure, settlement. One in Essex, however, was originally named with the phrase upp in tune up in the settlement, i.e. the higher part of the settlement; and one in Worcs. is probably so called from the OE personal name Ubba (of uncertain origin) + tiln. Uran see Uren
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Any of several places in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, An English toponymic found in Co. Cork and Co. Antrim. Castle Upton in the latter commemorates the first permanent settler in 1598. Later the name came to Munster with Cromwell
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Robert W. Uptonb. 1884USAmerican politician (1884-1972)
- Peggy Hopkins Joyceb. 1893USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, model and dancer (1893–1957)
- Clive Uptonb. 1946GBBritish Sociolinguist
- Fred Uptonb. 1953USUnited States Representative from Michigan
- Gabrielle Uptonb. 1964AUAustralian politician
- Andrew Uptonb. 1966AUAustralian screenwriter
- Eben Uptonb. 1978GBBritish computer scientist
- B. J. Uptonb. 1984USAmerican baseball player
- Justin Uptonb. 1987USAmerican baseball player
- Kate Uptonb. 1992USAmerican model and actress (born 1992)
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,616 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,662 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9.7K | #798 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Upton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Lepton; name of numerous places in England, mostly 'higher farmstead' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Upton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Upton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled upton.
- How common is the name Upton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,769 people named Upton in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Upton compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Upton is the 984th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Upton” — the 984th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.