Name Shelton

Origin:

From a Old English word for hill, dune

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Name info:

About the name Shelton in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Sheldon, Elton, Kelton Details

Group info:

About Sheldon, the group of names with the same origin as Shelton

Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin:	from a family name that derives from a place name
	the place name which occurs several times in England contains the element dun (hill, dune)
Words:	dun = the hill, the dune Old English
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	437:Sheldon USA 1994, 839:Shelton USA 1993

Popularity:

Popularity lists that contain the name Shelton

Series	Graph	Rankings
USA yearly	Graph	1996 969, 1994 943, 1993 839