Given name & surname
Frampton
“enclosure; settlement, town”
Frampton is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Frampton goes back to Old English tūn, meaning “enclosure; settlement, town.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Frampton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,164 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.
Frampton’s family of names
In Greek usage, Frampton as a surname is a transliteration of Φράμπτον.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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