Barton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person from any of numerous English places called Barton, meaning 'barley farm'; (ii) anglicized Czech Barton, from Barton, a pet form of Bartholomew (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ˈbɑː(ɹ)tən/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Barton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 68,233 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 3K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 526 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
68,233 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Barton
- English:/ˈbɑː(ɹ)tən/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) person from any of numerous English places called Barton, meaning 'barley farm'; (ii) anglicized Czech Barton, from Barton, a pet form of Bartholomew
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Barton is found
(measured from records)Barton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #435 | 68,233 | 1 in 4.9K | 68K | Barton | 526 |
| GB United Kingdom | #254 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | listed | Barton | 280 |
| CA Canada | #418 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Barton | 200 |
| AU Australia | #333 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 1 | Barton | 223 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Barton | 33 |
| IE Ireland | #339 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Barton | 70 |
| NZ New Zealand | #287 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Barton | 115 |
| GY Guyana | — | 192 | 1 in 3.9K | 192 | — | 7 |
68,233 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Barton is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from one of the many places of this name; first attested Ælfric at Bertune 1015 OEByn
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Transferred use of the surname, originally a local name from any of the numerous places in England so called from Old English bere ‘barley’ + tan ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Short form: Bart.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Ælfric at Bertune 1015 OEByn; Paganus de Barton 1163 P; John de Barton’ 1300 FFY; Thomas Barten, Bartyn 1586, 1609 Shef. From one or other of the many places of this name.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Any of many places in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, redução de Bartolo com desinência dialetal -on
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Clara Bartonb. 1821USAmerican Civil War nurse (1821–1912)
- Edmund Bartonb. 1849AUAustralian politician, first Prime Minister of Australia and founding justice of the High Court of Australia (1849-1920)
- Derek Harold Richard Bartonb. 1918GBEnglish organic chemist (1918–1998)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)57 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barton mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person from any of numerous English places called Barton, meaning 'barley farm'; (ii) anglicized Czech Barton, from Barton, a pet form of Bartholomew Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Barton?
- In English /ˈbɑː(ɹ)tən/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Barton?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Barton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barton. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Barton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,233 people named Barton in 2010, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Barton compared with other names?
- In the United States, Barton is the 435th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Barton?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bartonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Barton” — ranked 447th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.