Explore the Family Name Catterton

The meaning of Catterton

English: habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire named Catterton, from a Celtic hill name, Cadeir (from cadeir ‘chair’), + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. Compare Chatterton.

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How common is the last name Catterton in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the popularity of the surname Catterton has seen a slight decrease between 2000 and 2010. The ranking of the name fell from 30,791 in 2000 to 31,516 in 2010, marking a decline of 2.35%. However, the actual count of people with the Catterton surname increased by 2.8%, from 714 to 734 individuals. This discrepancy can be attributed to the overall population growth during this period, which slightly diluted the proportion of the Catterton surname per 100k from 0.26 to 0.25, resulting in a decrease of 3.85%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#30,791	#31,516	-2.35%
Count	714	734	2.8%
Proportion per 100k	0.26	0.25	-3.85%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Catterton

The Decennial U.S. Census data reveals some shifts in the ethnic identity associated with the Catterton surname. In 2000, virtually all bearers of the surname identified as White (97.76%). By 2010, this figure had dropped slightly to 95.64%. During the same decade, there were small increases in the number of Cattertons identifying as Hispanic (from 0% to 1.91%) and Black (from 0% to 0.68%). Interestingly, the data shows a new emergence of Cattertons identifying with two or more races in 2010, a category that was not represented at all in the 2000 data. The percentage of Cattertons identifying as American Indian and Alaskan Native, however, dropped from 0.70% in 2000 to zero in 2010.

	2000	2010	Change
White	97.76%	95.64%	-2.17%
Hispanic	0%	1.91%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	0.82%	0%
Black	0%	0.68%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0.7%	0%	0%