as a Last Name
- 26,861
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Denton
Meaning & Origins
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, County Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in Domesday Book as Dodintone ‘settlement associated with Dodda’.
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 26,861
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Denton per capita
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