Given name & surname
Welton
“from the town near the well”
Welton is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the town near the well.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the town near the well.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English wella (“well, spring, stream”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Welton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,594
- 2,594 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 67 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 8 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 67 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,005 as a first name in 2020; 4,467 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.
Welton’s family of names
Welton has a related form in Welltin. Welton has a related form in Wellton. Welton has a related form in Welltun.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Welton
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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