Last Name DALTON

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Meaning	Local: Of Dalton, parishes in counties Lancashire, Durham, and East Riding Yorks; townships in counties Lancashire, Northumberland, North and West Riding Yorks, and Durham. Meaning 'the twon in the dale.' Thsi place-name is chiefly found in the hilly districts of North England. Local: Lerived from the town of Dalton, in Lancashire, England; a corruption of 'Dale-ton,' the town in the dale; or D'Alton, abbreviated to Dalton, that is from the high or rocky hill.

Origin	English, Irish, South african, Hungarian

Rank	615 (2000 US census)	608 (1990 US census)

Count	50,166 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

88.39%, or 44342 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
7.51%, or 3767 total occurrences, as black,
0.4%, or 201 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.69%, or 346 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.35%, or 677 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.66%, or 833 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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