Barton

Where Barton comes from

From Old English bere (“barley”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Barton
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1853
    Barton Warren Evermann born
    American ichthyologist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1888
    Peak, #442
    18 babies named Barton — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #722.
  5. 1902
    Barton MacLane born
    actor, playwright, screenwriter
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Barton MacLane · actor, playwright, screenwriter, 1902–1969
  • Barton Warren Evermann · American ichthyologist, 1853–1932
  • Barton W. Stone · American evangelist, 1772–1844
  • Barton Zwiebach · Peruvian theoretical physicist, born 1954
  • Barton Jahncke · American sailor, 1939–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.