as a Last Name
- 39,548
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Middleton
Meaning & Origins
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.
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Nicknames & variations
Middlebrooks, Middlebrook, Middaugh, Middendorf, Middlesworth, Middlemiss, Middlekauff, Middleman, Muggleton, Middelton
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 39,548
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Middleton per capita
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