as a Last Name
- 2,551
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Yelton
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and English: variant spelling of Yeltoun, a surname of uncertain origin recorded in Lanarkshire. Black speculates that it may be a habitational name from Youlton in North Yorkshire, which is named from the Old Scandinavian personal name Jóli + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,551
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Yelton per capita
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