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“South town; southern homestead” — Old English origin
Girl's name · #181 in the US (2025) · Trending
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. In South Dakota and North Dakota it runs about 3× its national rate and ranks #75 in South Dakota. It is also an American family name — about 91,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census. About 67% of babies named Sutton in recent years have been girls.
Around the world: about 1 in 1,900 girls in Canada (2024).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 43 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 18 notable people named Sutton:
No single standout — notable Suttons spread across many fields.
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