Given name & surname
Manton
“from the man's town; from the hero's town”
Manton is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the man's town; from the hero's town.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the man's town; from the hero's town.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English ġemǣne (“common, shared”), from Old English mealm (“sand, chalk”), from Irish Ó Manntáin (“descendant of Manntán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Manton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 39 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 8 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 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 111 as a first name in 2020; 866 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.
Manton’s family of names
Manton has a related form in Mannten. Manton has a related form in Mannton. Manton has a related form in Manntun.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Manton
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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