Popularity of the last name by country

United States

• Massachusetts (21,755)
• Virginia (12,140)
• Connecticut (11,474)
• New York (11,088)
• California (10,537)
• North Carolina (5,780)
• Illinois (5,595)
• Maryland (5,443)
• Missouri (5,164)
• Pennsylvania (4,923)
• Colorado (4,635)
• Ohio (3,782)
• Vermont (3,681)
• Michigan (3,269)
• Kentucky (3,176)
• Georgia (2,966)
• Indiana (2,635)
• Texas (2,561)
• South Carolina (2,408)
• New Jersey (2,109)
• Tennessee (2,016)
• Iowa (1,879)
• Alabama (1,707)
• Arkansas (1,652)
• New Hampshire (1,585)
• Kansas (1,439)
• Utah (1,344)
• Minnesota (1,228)
• Washington (1,186)
• Wisconsin (1,143)
• Mississippi (980)
• Oklahoma (903)
• Maine (900)
• Nebraska (847)
• Florida (819)
• Oregon (658)
• Rhode Island (649)
• West Virginia (597)
• Montana (547)
• North Dakota (533)
• Louisiana (515)
• Idaho (459)
• Arizona (409)
• Hawaii (272)
• South Dakota (244)
• New Mexico (228)
• Delaware (198)
• Wyoming (178)
• Nevada (125)
• Alaska (44)

All countries

• United Kingdom (304,329)
• United States (153,065)
• Australia (11,702)
• New Zealand (9,433)
• Unknown country (5,348)
• France (5,052)
• Canada (3,726)
• Ireland (3,656)
• Netherlands (804)
• Germany (668)
• Italy (623)
• Belgium (471)
• Switzerland (462)
• India (383)
• Spain (311)
• Martinique (280)
• Mexico (250)
• Argentina (190)
• Sweden (168)
• Poland (153)
• Czech republic (134)
• Peru (125)
• Indonesia (111)
• Greece (100)
• Colombia (99)
• Netherlands Antilles (94)
• Russian Federation (88)
• China (84)
• Denmark (80)
• Jamaica (80)
• Brazil (74)
• Austria (66)
• Turkey (63)
• South Africa (61)
• Norway (55)
• Portugal (54)
• Israel (53)
• Mauritius (52)
• Egypt (51)
• Lebanon (50)

Origine of last name

NEWTON : English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead settlement’ or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement town’. According to Ekwall this is the commonest English placename. For this reason the surname has a highly fragmented origin.