as a Last Name
- 16,996
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Overton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so called. Most are named from Old English uferra ‘upper’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; others have Old English ōfer ‘riverbank’ or ofer ‘slope’ as the first element.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,996
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Overton per capita
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