as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of numerous places in England so called (mostly from the Old English masculine personal name Ella + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’). In England it is largely associated with the singer-songwriter Elton John; born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947, he adopted the given name by which he is famous in honour of the saxophonist Elton Dean.
| 1,653rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,545
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 15,148
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Elton per capita
- 1915
- marked the height of its popularity
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