Borton
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Borton is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In South Sudan it is the 6th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A different form of Burton.
- USUnited States1 in 96K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 170K
- SSSouth Sudan1 in 4.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.5K ●
- Sources
- 243 ●
- 1 in 96K ◐
across 4 countries
28K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
A different form of Burton.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,461 | 23K rec. | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Borton | 243 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,370 | 1.2K rec. | — | listed | Borton | 71 |
| AU Australia | — | 635 | 589 rec. | — | — | Borton | 60 |
| CA Canada | — | 581 | 563 rec. | — | — | Borton | 44 |
| PH Philippines | — | 234 | 223 rec. | — | — | Borton | 7 |
| MX Mexico | — | 141 | 135 rec. | — | — | Borton | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 122 | 127 rec. | — | — | Borton | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | 100 | 101 rec. | — | — | Borton | 3 |
| IL Israel | — | 70 | 71 rec. | — | — | Borton | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | 69 | 69 rec. | — | — | Borton | 14 |
| SS South Sudan | #6 | 63 | 196 rec. | — | — | Borton | 1 |
| IN India | — | 60 | 62 rec. | — | — | Borton | 4 |
Roughly 3.5K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 96K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
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Languages●
- English27K84%
- Spanish1.2K4%
- 7622%
- Welsh3601%
- Portuguese3031%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 26,705 | 84% |
| Spanish | 1,235 | 4% |
| 762 | 2% | |
| Welsh | 360 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 303 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Arthur Bortonb. 1814GBBritish Army officer and Governor of Malta
- Joseph Bortonb. 1832NZcricketer (1832-1924)
- Arthur Bortonb. 1883GBrecipient of the Victoria Cross
- Babe Bortonb. 1888USAmerican baseball player (1888-1954)
- Hugh Bortonb. 1903USJapan expert and President of Haverford College
- John Bortonb. 1932USAmerican football quarterback
- Lady Bortonb. 1942Writer
- Marcelo Oxenfordb. 1947ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian actor
- Charles BortonPeerage person ID=595213
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,922 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,602 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 54 | #99,355 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 25 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #164,168 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #146 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Borton?
- We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Borton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Borton have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.5 thousand people bear Borton in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled borton.
- How common is Borton compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Borton is the 6th most common surname of 1,634 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Borton mean?
- Recorded meaning: A different form of Burton.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Borton” — the 6th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.