Alton Boy Name

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The name Alton is of English origin, and means one who lives in an old town. The table below indicates the number of times the name Alton has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Alton**
Use of the Name Alton for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
43,882	14,025	3,914	754	155	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Alton has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Alton last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2002, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Alton**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	484	14
1881	533	11
1882	427	18
1883	309	28
1884	468	16
1885	312	29
1886	454	16
1887	439	15
1888	444	18
1889	348	26
1890	389	21
1891	386	20
1892	329	32
1893	369	24
1894	337	28
1895	368	26
1896	339	31
1897	311	35
1898	378	27
1899	306	33
1900	326	43
1901	359	26
1902	312	38
1903	190	84
1904	78	302
1905	135	164
1906	170	106
1907	180	120
1908	179	121
1909	211	101
1910	211	122
1911	194	156
1912	192	300
1913	182	372
1914	199	418
1915	196	566
1916	190	605
1917	194	607
1918	200	642
1919	199	632
1920	197	682
1921	200	684
1922	187	746
1923	200	672
1924	205	674
1925	195	714
1926	184	774
1927	190	763
1928	178	806
1929	191	717
1930	182	755
1931	185	708
1932	185	713
1933	184	666
1934	184	711
1935	187	700
1936	189	670
1937	173	833
1938	185	767
1939	192	681
1940	194	691
1941	213	633
1942	227	628
1943	224	658
1944	218	627
1945	241	555
1946	254	604
1947	261	652
1948	244	697
1949	273	594
1950	257	638
1951	264	643
1952	278	610
1953	287	603
1954	291	595
1955	288	611
1956	304	598
1957	324	565
1958	321	572
1959	332	540
1960	339	527
1961	340	539
1962	365	478
1963	370	458
1964	362	462
1965	390	402
1966	390	373
1967	372	401
1968	401	379
1969	420	353
1970	439	345
1971	422	363
1972	458	293
1973	435	322
1974	477	277
1975	521	239
1976	489	264
1977	489	273
1978	539	234
1979	548	243
1980	540	250
1981	541	239
1982	523	264
1983	544	238
1984	607	195
1985	608	207
1986	649	188
1987	662	190
1988	604	241
1989	711	192
1990	703	210
1991	682	221
1992	769	183
1993	783	181
1994	841	161
1995	887	152
1996	947	136
1997	918	147
1998	887	164
1999
2000
2001
2002	997	155
Totals:		43,882		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Alton as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Alton appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 120 times during the last 125 years.

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Alton Boy Name

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