as a Last Name
- 92,120
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Horton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, are named from Old English horh ‘mud’, ‘slime’ or horn ‘dirt’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in southern Gloucestershire, however, is named from Old English heorot ‘hart’ + dūn ‘hill’.
| 334th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 92,120
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Horton per capita
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