Stratton

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Person from Stratton, numerous English places; mainly 'farmstead on a Roman road'

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

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

Stratton 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 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 14K
  • USUnited States1 in 14K

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)

22,983 people, 2010

Sources
431 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Person from Stratton, numerous English places; mainly 'farmstead on a Roman road'.

Sources 1

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stratton 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 Stratton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—22,9831 in 14K23KStratton431
GB United Kingdom—≈5,200 est.≈1 in 13K4.4KStratton183
ID Indonesia—≈4,800 est.≈1 in 56K—Stratton8
CA Canada—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 14K4Stratton148
EG Egypt—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 43K—Stratton5
NZ New Zealand#867≈540 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Stratton71
IE Ireland—≈400 est.≈1 in 13K—Stratton27
IS Iceland—≈50 est.≈1 in 7KlistedStratton2

22,983 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)

Stratton is also recorded in 3 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 or other of the many places of this name, mainly southern; first attested Richard de Stratton 1199 Pl (Do)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, places, for example in Beds., Dorset, Hants, Norfolk, Oxon., Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, and Wilts., so called from OE street (Roman) road (see Street) + tun enclos¬ ure, settlement. A place of the same name in Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, prob¬ ably has as its first element Corn, stras valley.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In English, A placename:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

18001850190019502000Charles Sherwood Stratton, b. 1838Samuel Wesley Stratton, b. 1861Gene Stratton-Porter, b. 1863F. J. M. Stratton, b. 1881William Stratton, b. 1914Gil Stratton, b. 1922Tony Stratton Smith, b. 1933Dennis Stratton, b. 1952Juliana Stratton, b. 1965Tiffany Stratton, b. 1999

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 Stratton,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Stratton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201023K#1,565
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200022K#1,457
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202022K#1,590
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20024.4K#1,804
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Stratton mean, and where does it come from?
Person from Stratton, numerous English places; mainly 'farmstead on a Roman road'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Stratton?
A machine transcription gives /stɹætən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Stratton have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Stratton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stratton.
How common is the name Stratton?
In the United States, the national register counted 22,983 people named Stratton in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Stratton compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Stratton is the 867th most common surname of 87,225 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, “Stratton” — the 867th most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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