Carlton Family History
Carlton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Carleton or Carlton, from Old Norse karl ‘common man’,
‘peasant’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’ (compare
Charlton 1). Places spelled Carl(e)ton (as opposed to
Charlton) are in areas of Scandinavian settlement, mostly in
northern England.Irish: Americanized and altered form of
Carlin 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Carlton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carlton families
 105 - 208  36 - 104 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Carlton families
|
196 - 390 66 - 195 |
1 - 65 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carlton families
|
48 - 93 17 - 47 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Carlton Family Origin
Carlton Immigration Information
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Carlton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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