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Middleton

in the US

There are 34,466 people with the last name "Middleton" in the United States.

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Middleton 748
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  1. is 744th most common Rivas
  2. is 745th most common Peck
  3. is 746th most common Bradshaw
  4. is 747th most common Hardin
  5. is 748th most common Middleton
  6. is 749th most common Ochoa
  7. is 750th most common Lowery
  8. is 751st most common Gallegos
  9. is 752nd most common Ellison

Most Common First Names for Middleton

James, John, Robert, William, David, Michael, Mary, Charles, Richard, Mark

Meaning & History

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas, the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. However, Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune, the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’, ‘great’. Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gemȳðhyll (from gemȳð ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin.

FOREBEARS A Scottish family of this name derives it from lands at Middleto(u)n near Kincardine. The Scottish physician Peter Middleton practiced in New York City after 1752 and was one of the founders of the medical school at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1767. One of the earliest of the Charleston, SC, Middleton family of prominent legislators was Arthur Middleton, born in Charleston in 1681.

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