Norton

Where Norton comes from

From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The parish in New Brunswick is named after Norton, Massachusetts.
— Wiktionary's entry for Norton
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #681
    10 babies named Norton — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1947
    Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma born
    British peer
  5. 1951
    Norton Buffalo born
    American singer-songwriter, performer, record producer
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma · British peer, born 1947
  • Norton Buffalo · American singer-songwriter, performer, record producer, 1951–2009
  • Norton Juster · American children's writer, academic, and architect, 1929–2021
  • Norton Simon · American art collector, 1907–1993
  • Norton A. Schwartz · American military officer, born 1951

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.