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

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɑɹtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Barton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 3.4K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

68,233 people, 2010

Sources
526 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(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.

Where Barton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#43568,2331 in 4.9K68KBarton526
GB United Kingdom#254≈22,000 est.≈1 in 3KlistedBarton280
CA Canada#418≈7,900 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Barton200
IT Italy#674≈7,700 est.≈1 in 8.1K—Barton31
AU Australia#333≈6,900 est.≈1 in 3.7K1Barton223
IE Ireland#339≈1,500 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Barton70
NZ New Zealand#287≈1,500 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Barton115
GY Guyana—1921 in 3.9K192—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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Barton is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Bartoň

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Bartoň, Bartoń, Bartón

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Bartoň

  • Hindi surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Burton, Bartoň, Bartoń, বারটন

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, United Kingdom, Palestine

    Languages: Arabic, Maltese

    Also written Bartön, Bartoň

  • Chinese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, China, New Zealand

    Also written Bartoń, Bartoň, Bartons

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

1700180019002000Benjamin Smith Barton, b. 1766Clara Barton, b. 1821Edmund Barton, b. 1849Charles Barton, b. 1902Derek Harold Richard Barton, b. 1918Jaqueline Barton, b. 1952Roger Barton, b. 1965Joey Barton, b. 1982Mischa Barton, b. 1986Will Barton, b. 1991

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)

FormalDear Barton,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 57 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Barton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201068K#488
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200067K#447
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202065K#506
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025192#433
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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?
A machine transcription gives /bɑɹtən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Barton have the most bearers?
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.
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.

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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” — the 435th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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