Explore the Family Name Ecton

The meaning of Ecton

English (Leicestershire): variant of Eckton, a habitational name from Eckton, a lost place in Otley (Yorkshire), or from either of two places called Ecton in Northamptonshire and Staffordshire, so named from the Old English personal name Ecca + tūn ‘settlement, enclosure’. This form of the surname has now died out in Britain.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

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

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the popularity of the surname Ecton saw a decline from 2000 to 2010. Ranked 41,859 in 2000, it fell to 49,365 in 2010, marking a decrease of nearly 18%. In terms of count, there were 489 individuals with the Ecton surname in 2000, but this number dropped to 426 by 2010 - a fall of around 13%. When measured as a proportion per 100,000 people, the prevalence of the Ecton name also experienced a decline, dropping by 22%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#41,859	#49,365	-17.93%
Count	489	426	-12.88%
Proportion per 100k	0.18	0.14	-22.22%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Ecton

Moving to the ethnic identity associated with the Ecton name, according to the Decennial U.S. Census data, the majority identify as White, although there was a slight decrease from 85.28% in 2000 to 81.22% in 2010. No individuals identified as Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, or American Indian and Alaskan Native in either year. Those identifying as having two or more races remained relatively low and consistent, with only a small decrease from 1.23% to 1.17% over the decade. Interestingly, there was an increase in individuals identifying as Black, rising from 13.29% in 2000 to 16.20% in 2010, a growth of nearly 22%.

	2000	2010	Change
White	85.28%	81.22%	-4.76%
Black	13.29%	16.2%	21.9%
Two or More Races	1.23%	1.17%	-4.88%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%