Given name & surname
Middleton
“from the central town”
Middleton is used as a given name, a surname, and a nickname. One English interpretation is “from the central town.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the central town.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English Middeltūn, built from English middle + ton.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Middleton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 34 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 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 1947. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 41,103 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.
Middleton’s family of names
In English usage, Middleton has a short form in K-Mid. Middleton has a related form in Middleten. Middleton has a related form in Middletun.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Middleton
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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>99% boys
Wilton
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>99% boys
Wellington
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>99% boys
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99% boys · 1% girls
Weldon
“from the hill near a spring”
>99% boys