Last Name ATHERTON

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Meaning Local: Of Atherton, a chaperly in the parish of Leigh, county Lancashire.
Local: From Atherstone, a town in Warwickshire, England.
Origin English, Anglo-Saxon, French, German

Rank 5,000 (2000 US census) 3,842 (1990 US census)
Count 6,435 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 93.41%, or 6011 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.66%, or 107 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.59%, or 38 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.31%, or 20 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.59%, or 102 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.44%, or 157 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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