as a Last Name
- 5,418
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Parton
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly West Midlands): habitational name from any of various places called Parton; most are named with Old English peretūn ‘pear orchard’ (a compound of pere ‘pear’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, with later change of -er- to -ar-, a regular phonetic development in Middle English). There are examples in Gloucestershire, two in Cumbria, and one in Kircudbrightshire, Scotland.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,418
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Parton per capita
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