Given name & surname · also Old English
Barton
“from the barley town”
Barton is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the barley town.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the barley town.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old English.
How it developed
It entered given-name use through an existing surname.
The story
Its naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Barton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 9,371
- 9,371 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 245 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,018 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −58%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,018 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 245 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,950 as a first name in 2020; 64,761 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Barton’s family of names
Barton has a short form in Bart. Barton has a related form in Bartan. Barton has a related form in Barten.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Bartshort form
- Barttonlikely variant
- Barrtonlikely variant
- Bartynvariant
- Bartinvariant
- Bartanvariant
- Bartenvariant
- Bartunvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Barton
- Lee HazlewoodAmerican singer, songwriter, record producer (1929-2007)
- Barton MacLaneactor, playwright, screenwriter (1902–1969)
- Bart JohnsonAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Barton Warren EvermannAmerican ichthyologist (1853–1932)
- Bart GordonAmerican politicianborn 1949
- Barton W. StoneAmerican evangelist (1772–1844)
- Barton JahnckeAmerican sailor1939–2024
- Barton ZwiebachPeruvian theoretical physicistborn 1954
- Barton HeymanAmerican actor (1937-1996)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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