Appleton is used as a family name or surname in English. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Appleton
No. of characters: 8
Origin: English
Meaning: In Old English, suffix -ton is used for town. So Appleton means a town abounding in apples or an apple garden.

How popular is Appleton?

Appleton is common in Liberia.

Appleton is ranked 21705 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Appleton bearers increased by 3.924121 per cent in 2010 US census to 5588 since 2000, the surname slipped by 238 spots and ranked at 6132. The last name was found in around 19 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 79.62 83.09
Black 14.32 12.59
Hispanic or Latino 2.45 1.51
Others 2.22 1.41
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.95 1.04
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.45 0.35
Appleton is quite popular family name mostly used in England while Liberia is ahead in terms of density. Around 23805 people have been found who wears Appleton as their family name. Appleton is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
7,031 China6
918,840 India5
720,003 Russia4
127,708 Czech Republic3
4,164 Vietnam2
89,020 Tanzania2
17,037 Trinidad and Tobago2
21,529 Singapore2
18,625 Japan2
6,103 Cyprus2
124,220 Italy2
12,844 Pakistan2
54,135 Philippines2
28,365 Kenya1
2,078 Lesotho1
31,584 Peru1
810,193 Indonesia1
24,771 Colombia1
10,190 Bahrain1
49,101 Denmark1
134,667 Zimbabwe1
25,721 Egypt1
20,172 Hungary1
2,037 Cayman Islands1
42,479 Greece1
1,254 Gibraltar1
7,191 Afghanistan1
24,176 Qatar1
36,814 Romania1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
4,999 Papua New Guinea1
7,895 South Korea1
47,891 Norway1
5,553 Taiwan1
2,613 The Bahamas1
472 Tonga1
13,447 Uganda1
1,176 Antigua and Barbuda1
2,724 New Caledonia1
5,872 Namibia1
6,820 Angola1
14,618 Guyana1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
46,461 Netherlands40
24,028 United Arab Emirates38
28,564 Switzerland36
43,662 Belgium30
595 Jersey28
9,692 Ireland27
21,901 Chile27
838 Guam24
886 United States Virgin Islands18
7,162 Thailand15
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
2,305 Northern Ireland95
2,516 Hong Kong95
3,494 Panama82
30,841 Spain80
12,704 Sweden73
Countries with hundreds of Appleton:
7,835 South Africa822
1,330 New Zealand551
6,557 Ghana399
2,095 Scotland341
31,047 Germany336
1,994 Portugal332
1,356 Wales293
16,087 Mexico236
57,437 France171
1,793 Jamaica143
9,170 Israel118
15,665 Malaysia101
Countries with thousands of Appleton:
997 England7,631
5,586 United States7,045
1,813 Australia1,747
3,386 Canada1,389
480 Liberia1,377
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

William Appleton worked as workman and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 17 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Nonantum and arrived on April 18, 1846. Andw. Appleton, Maid Mary Appleton, 50 years old John Appleton, S.F. Appleton, aged 22, Jas. Appleton (36) Workman, Thomas Appleton (26) Workman, Elizth. Appleton, aged 37, 13 years old Ann Appleton, 11 years old Mary Appleton, and 2 other Appleton around 50% of whom were workman while others worked as servant and spinster migrated to US.

Comments

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Brant Lundeen
 The origin of this name is Anglo-Saxon etymology comes from the agglutination of apple town and words ie the city of apples.

Appleton Namesakes

  • In 2009, Esme Appleton portrayed the role of Christina Rossetti in 0 movie Albion Rising.
  • Kendra Appleton characterized leading character of Marla Singer in 2009 comedy, musical movie Horrible Turn.

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