Sutton

Meaning: South town; southern homestead
Origin: Old English

Girl's name · #181 in the US (2025) · Trending

67% girls · 33% boys — Sutton is also given to boys: 1,018 in 2025, about 33% in recent years. Sutton →

Popularity over time

Sutton is climbing: on the charts since 1963, it reached #181 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 1,700 girls given the name last year. Roughly 13,000 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

In recent years, Sutton ran about 3× its national rate in South Dakota and North Dakota—ranked #42 in South Dakota in 2025.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 43 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Sutton ranks in other countries and regions.

#382 in Canada (2024).

Famous Suttons

Sutton Foster — American actress
Sutton Stracke — American socialite and television personality

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 91,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Chris Sutton — English footballer and manager (born 1973)
May Sutton — US tennis player (1886–1975)
Christopher Sutton — Australian road bicycle racer

What Suttons become

Among 18 notable people named Sutton:

No single standout — notable Suttons spread across many fields.

Similar names: Oakley · Zuri · Leighton · Rowan · Meadow · Evelynn

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