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Morton

in Vermont

There are 160 people with the last name "Morton" in Vermont.

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Morton 547
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  1. is 543rd most common Badger
  2. is 544th most common Dunbar
  3. is 545th most common Oconnell
  4. is 546th most common Godfrey
  5. is 547th most common Morton
  6. is 548th most common Piper
  7. is 549th most common Blais
  8. is 550th most common Booth
  9. is 551st most common Earle

Similar Names and Nicknames

Martin, Mortensen, Martino, Mortimer, Mortenson, Martini, Martineau, Mort, Marten, Martine

Most Common First Names for Morton

Richard, Susan, John, Eric, William, Douglas, Elizabeth, Harold, Katherine

Meaning & History

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named in Old English as ‘settlement (tūn) by or on a marsh or moor (mōr)’.

Swedish: variant of Martin.

French: contracted form of Moreton 2.

Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames or of various other non-English names bearing some kind of similarity to it.

FOREBEARS The name Morton was established early in North America. George Morton (1585–1624), one of the Pilgrims, was probably born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. He and his son Nathaniel (b. 1613 in Leiden, the Netherlands) settled in Plymouth in 1623. John Morton (c.1724–77), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born in PA, of Swedish descent. His grandfather, Morten Mortenson, had emigrated from Gothenburg in 1654.

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