as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of the numerous places so called from Old English mōrtūn ‘settlement by or on a moor’. It is also widely used as a Jewish name, having been adopted as an approximate English equivalent of Moses.
| 2,246th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,730
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 9,130
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New York
- has the most people named Morton per capita
- 1923
- marked the height of its popularity
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