Popularity of the last name by country
Brazil
- Minas Gerais (18)
- Rio de Janeiro (17)
- Mato Grosso do Sul (7)
- Acre (3)
- Bahia (1)
- Ceara (1)
- Pernambuco (1)
- Sao Paulo (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (152,881)
- United States (140,241)
- Ireland (9,255)
- Australia (6,594)
- New Zealand (5,538)
- France (4,358)
- Unknown country (3,525)
- Canada (2,559)
- Germany (581)
- Italy (561)
- Switzerland (400)
- Belgium (386)
- Netherlands (270)
- Spain (224)
- India (217)
- Portugal (204)
- Mexico (196)
- Brazil (175)
- Sweden (139)
- Argentina (138)
- Colombia (129)
- South Africa (123)
- Russian Federation (103)
- China (96)
- Jamaica (88)
- Denmark (85)
- Greece (83)
- Poland (82)
- Algeria (81)
- Indonesia (81)
- Paraguay (55)
- Austria (50)
- Egypt (49)
- Norway (47)
- Turkey (47)
- Hungary (45)
- Lebanon (40)
- St. Pierre and Miquelon (40)
- Peru (33)
- Malta (31)
Origine of last name
NORTON : 1: English: habitational name from any of the many places so called from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Norrington">Norrington</a>.2: Irish: altered form of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Naughton">Naughton</a> assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).3: Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
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