as a Last Name
- 48,522
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Dalton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, named Dalton, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
| 586th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 48,522
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Dalton per capita
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