Last name: HORTON
Welcome at Geneanet!
With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 8 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.
All you have to know about the last name HORTON
Last name frequency
HORTON : This last name is indexed 269,109 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HORTON : English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called such as those in Berkshire Buckinghamshire Dorset Gloucestershire Herefordshire Northamptonshire Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Wiltshire and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ though some may have different origins including Horton in Gloucestershire which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart stag’ + tūn.
Learn moreVariants of last name
The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.
Search a name
Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.
Most popular first names
- John (15,486)
- William (14,152)
- Thomas (11,798)
- Mary (7,919)
- James (6,631)
- Elizabeth (6,104)
- Sarah (5,628)
- Joseph (5,462)
- George (5,398)
- Henry (4,181)
- Charles (3,357)
- Richard (2,896)
- Edward (2,799)
- Ann (2,780)
- Robert (2,594)
- Samuel (2,444)
- Hannah (2,217)
- Benjamin (2,164)
- David (1,983)
- Edward Everett (1,833)
- Jane (1,757)
- Barnabas (1,657)
- Mary Ann (1,413)
- Frank (1,316)
- Martha (1,272)
- Daniel (1,248)
- Mr. (1,247)
- Isaac (1,241)
- Margaret (1,206)
- Anne (1,179)
- Jonathan (1,154)
- Alice (1,092)
- Harry (1,047)
- Joshua (1,008)
- Eliza (959)
- Albert (935)
- Emma (898)
- Walter (897)
- Caleb (863)
- Mrs. (805)
- Arthur (730)
- Alfred (714)
- Francis (710)
- Frances (689)
- Maria (675)
- Harriet (653)
- Anna (644)
- Frederick (587)
- Stephen (585)
- Ellen (581)
- Abigail (580)
- Rebecca (576)
- William Henry (567)
- Ruth (555)
- Rachel (548)
- Nathaniel (545)
- Esther (536)
- Catherine (529)
- Lucy (525)
- Caroline (503)
Most indexed places
- Missouri (3,427)
- Birmingham (2,471)
- Mowsley (2,326)
- Southold, Suffolk (2,224)
- New York (1,923)
- England (1,746)
- New (1,645)
- Rehoboth, Bristol (1,259)
- Horton (1,123)
- Linton (1,046)
- Springfield, Hampden (1,028)
- London (954)
- Birmingham, Warwick (878)
- North Carolina (852)
- Saint Phillips,birmingham,warwick (852)
- Saint Martin,birmingham,warwick (826)
- Washington (805)
- Virginia (798)
- Rye, Westchester (792)
- Southold (790)
- Rehoboth (746)
- South Carolina (720)
- Tanworth (676)
- Tennessee (670)
- Worcestershire (668)
- Kent (653)
- Alabama (635)
- Georgia (612)
- Auckland (605)
- Massachusetts (587)
- Canterbury (583)
- Aston (572)
- Cutchogue, Suffolk (553)
- Solihull (527)
- Texas (516)
- Maidstone (510)
- Manchester (510)
- All Saints,west Bromwich,stafford (509)
- Bloxwich, Stafford (506)
- Leicestershire (494)
- Paris (491)
- Stelling (490)
- New York City (480)
- Maidstone borough (470)
- Arkansas (457)
- Chicago (450)
- Pennsylvania (437)
- Ohio (428)
- Stafford (423)
- White Plains, Westchester (421)
- Bristol, Gloucester (418)
- Wellington (415)
- Folkestone (407)
- Bristol, St Philip and Jacob (393)
- Milton, Norfolk (392)
- San Bernardino (388)
- Halifax, Yorkshire (375)
- Boston (373)
- North (370)
- Los (369)
Most indexed countries
- United Kingdom (128,083)
- United States (108,205)
- Australia (4,143)
- New Zealand (4,136)
- Canada (2,510)
- France (2,197)
- Unknown country (1,959)
- Ireland (878)
- Netherlands (467)
- Germany (255)
- Greece (226)
- Italy (201)
- Belgium (186)
- Switzerland (131)
- Spain (92)
- Mexico (83)
- Colombia (82)
- Argentina (69)
Available collections for this name
- Archives
(112,671) - Family Trees
(77,626) - Newspapers
(42,781) - Books
(32,042) - Other
(2,202) - Magazines
(908) - Obituaries
(644) - Cemeteries
(131) - Memorials
(93) - Coats of Arms
(11)