Given name & surname
Norton
“from the northern town”
Norton is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the northern town.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the northern town.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Norton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,310
- 2,310 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 74 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 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 74 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 938 as a first name in 2020; 59,666 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.
Norton’s family of names
Norton has a related form in Nortan. Norton has a related form in Norten. Norton has a related form in Northtan.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Northtanvariant
- Northtynvariant
- Northtinvariant
- Northtenvariant
- Northtonvariant
- Northtunvariant
- Nortanvariant
- Nortynvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Norton
- Emperor NortonSan Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States1811–1880
- Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of BurmaBritish peerborn 1947
- Norton BuffaloAmerican singer-songwriter, performer, record producer (1951-2009)
- Norton JusterAmerican children's writer, academic, and architect (1929-2021)
- Norton P. ChipmanUnion Army general (1834–1924)
- Norton SimonAmerican art collector (1907-1993)
- Norton A. SchwartzAmerican military officerborn 1951
- Norton ZinderAmerican microbiologist (1928–2012)
- Norton BarnhillAmerican basketball player1953–2025
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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