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Alton
Pronounced /ˈɔːltən/
Rank in 2024
#1,573
Born in 2024
110
Peak year
1937 · #173
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 110 boys were named Alton, about 1 in every 15,594.
- It peaked in 1937 with 836 babies, ranked #173.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 47,349 boys have been named Alton since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Alton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.7Greatest1901–27
- 0.6Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 11,187 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Silent: 12,555 babies, 0.61 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,020 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,015 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,204 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,325 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,533 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English ǣwell (“river source”) + tūn (“settlement, town”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈɔːltən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Alton, CC BY-SA 4.0.