as a Last Name
- 17,365
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Fenton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’
| 2,119th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,365
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Fenton per capita
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