Morton

Where Morton comes from

From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh”) + tūn (“settlement”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Morton
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #239
    53 babies named Morton — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #456.
  4. 1913
    Morton Gould born
    American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist
  5. 1926
    Morton Feldman born
    American composer
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Morton Feldman · American composer, 1926–1987
  • Morton Gould · American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist, 1913–1996
  • Morton Betts · English footballer, 1847–1914
  • Morton Subotnick · American neo-classical composer and avant-garde electronic musician, born 1933
  • Morton Kaplan · American editor, 1921–2017

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.