Last Name CATTON

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Meaning	Local: Of Catton, a chapelry in the parish of Croxall, county Derby; a parish in county Norfolk, two miles from Norwich; a parish in East Rid. Yorks; a township in the parish of Topcliffe, North Rid. Yorks.

Origin	English, Irish, Belgian

Rank	29,840 (2000 US census)	47,984 (1990 US census)

Count	743 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.21%, or 700 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.94%, or 7 total occurrences, as black,
0.94%, or 7 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.21%, or 9 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.69%, or 20 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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